Category: Everyday Stories
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On the third night we decide to eat a decent dinner at what seems to be a popular place, and we pay for it dearly
Christmas Tree in Town Square, Texas Light box enlargement
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The second day of the trip, we encountered a table in the middle of the road
What do you do when you’re racing cross country and back on a two week vacation and want to give the eight-year-old huddled in the back seat the impression you’re providing him extra-exceptional entertainment by doing this? Flying through Louisiana on I-20, the co-adults spotted a billboard for a gator park and discreetly consulted with…
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The extra ultra mundane very dull first day of our trip
The first day of our trip was all last minute errands, like buying a camera. But first we went to get our new glasses, which were thankfully ready, and dealt with the slowest optician in the world who was very pleasant but still very very very slow and had an odd way of speaking so…
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Back. And tired, tired, tired.
We are back–and no we didn’t listen to Jackson Browne. Sorry. We don’t have any of Jackson Browne’s CDs. Co-adult says there are some he’d like to get but I have to admit I’m not very familiar with Browne’s music. Need to get an USB cable for the camera I was using the first couple…
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Immune System is Appreciated by Boy
H.o.p.: I want pot stickers. Me: Well maybe we can have some later. H.o.p. (pulling yogurt from the frig): But first let me have a little dairy product. When he got over his cold/flu/whatever it was we had that was so long term noxious, he thanked his “immune system”. Literally, he profusely thanked his immune…
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The 2nd wave of uh-oh it’s animals in my food hits H.o.p. Briefly.
H.o.p.: Guess what! Daddy told me there are pigs in pot stickers. Me (framing an old pic): Yes, there are. You didn’t realize that? H.o.p.: Well, I would like to keep the pigs safe. Me: H.o.p., you do know the beef you eat comes from cows. H.o.p. (after a split second’s consideration): Well, you know…
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And they’re off! (Nearly)
We’re toast here. On the homestretch of prepping for nearly a couple weeks worth of down time that will be lots of driving as we hate airplanes and like the road. Having stopped fooling myself that eight-year-olds can appreciate scenery I’ve been stocking fodder for the portable DVD player…plus we’re passing through Texas. Twice.
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Police Like to Tase at UCLA
What to do when a student doesn’t pull out his ID? Why, tase them of course. What do you do while the student is lying on the floor screaming in that way that tasing seems to make people scream and howl and doesn’t leap to their feet like you want them to do? Why, you…
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H.o.p. asks "What's your most embarrassing moment"
H.o.p. is wanting to know things like “What’s your most embarrassing moment” and by this he means two or three dozen. As my whole life is an embarrassment I was unable to make a selection. But the co-adult is less tragic and does have a segment that he has always related as “most embarrassing”. He…
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Yuck! Yuck, yuck, yuck!
One thing this apartment has been fairly good about is a lack of bugs, which I appreciate. Sure, during the summer months there’s always one big ol’ waterbug sighted scrambling across the kitchen floor to scurry back outside under the door, and about three or four times a year, after it rains, ants suddenly flow…
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Oops…thar she blows!
Here I have in my Netflix-borrowing hands a DVD of “Cat Women of the Moon”, which far surpasses any expectations I had for it, and I’d planned to blog my giddy, glorious wonder of this film on Friday. But then I opened up the Bloglines and what met my eyes but Pharyngula’s “Demand higher standards…
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A line of rationalizations of your typically bad consumer, which is me
We just spent $700 on eyeglasses (and exams) for the adults at “America’s Best” and I’m still happy, at least for the moment. I’m the super easy consumer who tries to never buy anything but when I do I always expect incompetence and no accountability and as long as you are friendly and smile and…