The other day, I stopped in at a fast food joint to get something to eat. I gave my order to the person standing behind the cash register, who did not acknowledge the order in any way and made no move to enter it into the cash register. Instead, he was looking around me, silently trying to get the attention of someone out in the dining area. No customers were standing in line, so I figured it had to be someone already seated. The person behind the register moved down the counter, still gesturing to some unseen person, extending a hand, but did not call out to whomever it was. Nor did he say anything to me, such as "I'll be right with you."
Slightly put out, I waited as the person returned to the cash register. Again, I gave my order, and again, the person ignored me, still looking around me at some unknown person. Now completely pissed, I asked him, "Are you going to wait on me or are you going to talk to somebody else?"
Finally, the clueless clerk spoke. "I was just trying to give him his change!" and showed me three pennies. First of all, there was no "him" to be seen -- the ordering area had been empty of people the entire time I'd been inside the restaurant -- and secondly, you don't get that invisible person's attention by gesturing silently, however much you stare and wave your arms.
Thoroughly irritated by this time, I said, "Fuck it" and stalked out, getting my meal elsewhere, from a place where I was actually able to get someone to take my order.
While out driving on Halloween the other night, I drove through a neighborhood in full trick or treat mode. Though a minority of older kids walked from house to house, most kids were driven by their parents to each house, getting in and out of the vehicle (mostly ubiquitous minivans) ever 25 feet or so.
This meant that the road was clogged with pausing and slow moving vehicles, which made it very difficult for through traffic to drive down the street. It also made it more dangerous for drivers like me because it made it harder to see kids on foot, and made it more dangerous for the kids, as it made it harder for them to see through traffic, and because of the unpredictable movements of the minivan parade.
I don't know why the parents of small children just didn't park their vehicles and get off their lazy asses and walk
with their kids to each house. And the parents of older children
should have been home giving out candy and let those kids travel in
groups to trick or treat on their own. It seems to me that if you're ten or eleven, having to spend the night getting in and out of a car with your parents there the whole time would suck all the joy right out of Halloween.
Halloween is totally different now for kids than it was when I was a kid trick or treating back in the sixties and early seventies. For one thing, only the smallest children had parents going with them to trick or treat, and even then the parents walked with their kids, they didn't drive them from house to house. And from about the second grade onwards (age 8), kids trick or treated on their own in groups in their own neighborhoods and the parents stayed home to hand out candy to other kids.
I lived in a huge subdivision where nearly every house participated. My mother would give me a king size pillow case and I'd fill that up, then return to get another one to fill. Trick or treating typically began at dusk, and continued for a few hours.
It was a lot more fun for us than it is for kids nowadays and I kind of feel sorry for kids now because they won't experience Halloween like most Baby Boom era kids did.
It seems as if I have a homing device to attract the religious of all stripes. I don't know what it is; perhaps it's my air of disrepute that attracts them like moths to a flame.
Recently, they hired a new guy at my place of employment, a squeaky-clean, straight arrow kind of person. I didn't have a problem with him until he started peddling his religion on me. He'd heard that I liked music and had some formal musical training, so he used that as a way to start preaching to me. Starting out innocently enough, he told me that he was the "praise leader" at his church, in charge of providing the music for their services, blah, blah, blah.
After a few moments of this, he got to his point of the entire conversation -- he wanted to know where I went to church. All the fundies do this, as they believe it's their duty to sell their religion to one and all.
Not really caring to discuss my opinion about religion with him, I simply told him that I didn't go, hoping to leave it at that.
No such luck.
He invited me to attend his church, telling me that I could be an asset to their "praise team" with my musical training.
I nearly choked and laughed myself to death all at the same time. Hell, talk about barking up the wrong tree! I'd probably burst into flames if I ever set foot into his smarmy, fundamentalist church.
Still not wanting to discuss religion in a work setting, I merely declined, citing the fact that I'm scheduled to work every Sunday.
Fortunately, at this moment, he had to get back to work, so I was spared being more blunt with him. But I'm guessing that some time soon, I'll have to tell him to fuck off in no uncertain terms.
On Saturday a courier tried to drop off a package for me but I was out for the count because I'd been up until 4:30am the previous night at Alton Towers. I had no idea who it was from or what it could be. I asked my family and they said they didn't send anything, not that I expected them to, as a family we don't do that type of thing.
Gran Reservas are identified by a teal blue on the back of the bottle. These wines are made in the best years, using only the finest red grapes (whites and roses are rare). They must spend 5 years in the winery of which at least 2 years are spent in oak casks and three in bottle. These are the classic and often the most traditional Rioja wines and rank amongst the finest in the world.
There's been a little spat in the media over the sacking of Professor David Nutt, the chief advisor to the government on drugs. Professor Nutt advised that cannabis, LSD and ecstasy be downgraded to a Class C drug due to the limited harmful effects when compared to alcohol and tobacco.
Another birthday has come and gone, I'm now 35, as someone pointed out, potentially halfway through my life.
I looked at my latest car payment statement. I only
owe $660 more on my car, so I'll be finally free of car payments by the
beginning of the year. It's been a long time since I've not owed on a
car and I'm looking forward to having more money at my disposal for other things. I just hope the car doesn't fall
apart once I get my title in the mail.
I hope to use some of the money I used for car payments each month to go towards paying my credit cards down. I'll start with the one I owe the least on and concentrate on getting it paid off, then move on to the next one. I'm sure I'll be spending money on car repairs, but at least I won't have to come up with the same amount of money each and every month.
Getting this particular car loan paid off is a victory of sorts for me. I was only a year into the loan when I was fired from my last job. My first thought as I left that job for good was that I was going to lose my car. But despite six months of unemployment, followed by having to take a job that paid less than half of what I'd been making before, I've still got the car and I'm about to own it free and clear. I almost feel like driving by my former place of employment to thumb my nose at them as a symbolic way to show them that despite them kicking me down, that I was far from out.
Good grief ... I leave you guys alone for a minute and ya all go crazy on me ... heehee
Ok ... maybe not crazy ... but close enough. I hear there is a new blog (that I just have to be part of) that has to do with TROLLS (goody goody ... can I have fun with them?) and I hear the present one is some little brat names Ken ... or is it Patrick ... either way ... neither one is probably the little twerps name (they're usually too chicken s*** to show who they really are anyway).
I hear he thinks he is a know-it-all and an expert on "liberals" ... considers himself to be a "conservative" ... and has the ability to to play GOD and decide whether a person actually feels enough pain and has suffered enough for his approval to allow them to exist in his universe. Kid ... you are nothing and have nooooooo idea who any of these people are you have tried to "influence" with your insecure little triads of unintelligent blabber. Some of the ones you have called "liberals" are actually conservatives who enjoy the intellectual conversations and debates with the ones who are the liberals ... some are those who are "middle-of -the-road" ... but all are friends, some new and others have been friends for years.
So ... before you infiltrate your obvious ineptness into conversations you know nothing about ... with people you know nothing about ... maybe you should stop to think ... before you stick your foot so far into your mouth ... it comes out the other end.
If you just want to meet people and be friends ... we're really nice people who used to be strangers ... until we became friends who respect each others' point of view.
With that said ... if i have no more gremlins to play with my internal parts (cyber and physical ... the mental was lost a loooong time ago ... heehee), I might be able to stick around a while.
I sure have missed everyone ... :D *HUGS*
Here's a sample of quotes I found about sex while surfing the net. Enjoy!
Love your neighbor, but don't get caught.
-- Unknown
Sow your wild oats on Saturday night -- Then on Sunday pray for crop failure. --Unknown
When I'm good I'm very, very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
--Mae West
Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure.
--Bob Hope
You know of course that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
--Somerset Maugham
A nymphomaniac is a women as obsessed with sex as the average man.
--Mignon McLaughlin
I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
--Woody Allen
"What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home."
--Ken Hammond
I am always looking for meaningful one night stands.
--Dudley Moore
It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of
getting married.
--Matt Barry
Leaving sex to the clergy is like letting your dog
vacation at the taxidermist.
--Camille Paglia
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
-- Unknown
I believe that trust is more important that monogamy
-- Savage Garden
While monogamy may be a great thing for families, it clearly is not for intellectuals
--the inventor of the birth control pill
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
--Aldous Huxley
I've been too fucking busy and vice versa.
--Dorothy Parker
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
--Raymond Chandler
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
--Ian Fleming
It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men.
--Mae West
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
--Mrs Patrick Campbell
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
--S. J. Perelman
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
--Woody Allen
When
authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important
lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
--Matt Groening
I don't see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy.
--Ellyn Mustard
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
--Dorothy Parker
Sex between a man and a woman can be great, provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
--Woody Allen
How many husbands have I had? You mean, apart from my own?
--Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. --Voltaire
Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
--Unknown
Promiscuous, adj. Someone who gets more sex than you.
--Author unidentified
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