Tuesday, January 24, 2006

I remember this morning

I remember this morning driving down the Banfield and thinking how the world just amazingly works. You safe travel to work is dependent on the person next to you having his or her act together and you assume that person somehow knows how to drive and is not impaired. Every body is cruising along at high speed in slicked conditions and we all get there.

The world is a complex place and we do many things remotely today. Remote meetings where by people are in their pajamas, we communicate via email and have lost the art of nuance but somehow we may have got better at as we only use words now and not always body language or body chemistry. We just assume the other person is on the same page.

And somewhere along the way we get along. For the most part that is. Until we introduce Religion. The all hell breaks loose.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Dimmyand Wacky

My favourite thread from years ago how the crazies gravitated toward us.
Mainly me…
Yesterday I was checking out in the Grocery Store
and the Lunatic in front of me went into the Winco Shuffle.
She bought 60.37 worth of stuff and only had 50 bucks and had to decide
what to throw back.

Of course Winco is bag your own. So I am bagging my groceries and
there is a bottle of Juice from the customer before me…

So I just give it to the Wacky Lady.
The wacky lady tells me I am blessed.
Nobody is blessed that is in WINCO.
The Dim cashier of course goes into a meltdown that I gave
the Juice to the Wacky Lady.

Dimmy hastily takes the Juice from the wacky lady…

By now I am pissed.
The cashier says that will be 356.67.
Lisa says to her …..NO ITS NOT…

Finally she figures out the bill…

I told the Dim Cashier I also gave the Wacky Lady a steak…

(I made that up)…

Of course I saw the Wacky Lady when I was out running…(I ran home from the store)

She waved and I did a 7 minute mile past her house...