November 3, 2006

  • Two pix recording annoyances demonstrating the increasing egocentricity shamelessly on display, and one Most Excellent Development  on the candy front:

    Yesterday while at SuperTarget (making my daily run, seems like) a pair of primo parking spots in the crowded parking lot were  out of commission due to...

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    Look past the black car.  What do you see?  Why, looky, looky!  It's a basket corral!  TWO PARKING PLACES DOWN, but whoever had the basket couldn't be bothered to push it TWO PARKING PLACES DOWN so as to shove it in the corral.  Mercy Maud, no.  Far too much trouble....much easier to just park the basket in the parking space and leave.

    BTW, before anyone inquires, yes, of course I moved it.  

    This afternoon I was collecting a book at the Ridglea branch of the library.  Now, this is an old branch as branches go.  Been here since Hector was a pup, yet twice in the last couple of weeks I've seen something I've not seen before, to wit, people entering from the exit.  This afternoon it was a woman in a minivan who pulled in the clearly marked "DO NOT ENTER" lot, causing quite a bit of trouble for another patron, who was attempting to back out her car out of its place, as it's a small, narrow lot. 

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    The van didn't try to pull into a parking spot....good thing, seeing as how they're all diagonal and running in the opposite direction from her... but parked in front of the door, whereupon the van's sliding door opened and a teenage girl wearing the uniform of a local private school hopped out with a book, running up to dump it in the book return.

    It's as if people have collectively decided to only obey those rules that don't cause them any trouble whatsoever.  Look, anyone can inadvertently find themselves going down the "wrong" lane in a grocery store parking lot, but tell me how that woman didn't see the prominently placed "DO NOT ENTER" sign. 

    On a happier note, while at Kroger I spied this:

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    Dark chocolate Turtles!  

    Christmas is coming, BTW.  Just thought I'd point that out.  In case.  That's all.  Just in case.  

Comments (4)

  • I got it, I got it, (the desire for turtles that is) And maybe Santa will put some in your stocking!!

  • It's important to take time out of one's day to share his feelings with others about how weird his mom really is.  "Why yes, that is my mother taking a picture of the dark chocolate turtles.  Oh, and there she is photographing the "good side" of a "do not enter" sign.  And I hope the shopping cart didn't mind its picture being taken."  Actually, the blog is very true and entertaining.  I'm just giving you a hard time.  If only you could photograph a "hard time," you could write a blog on it.  he he he.  With love, Alexander Beetle.

  • That library is is my old neighborhood!! The one right by the country club.

  • You're kidding! Good heavens, then this is your old stompin' grounds, as my father likes to say.

    Therefore you must be familiar with the Tom Thumb it's near to, which is where I shop, and the shopping center where the Curves is that I belong to (to the left of Hedary's, and right down from the Italian Inn), and the McDonald's on Camp Bowie which is directly across from Eagle Academy, where Dmitry goes to school.

    Small world, and that's a fact.

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