Ram Tuff

I was in a part of Ireland where the sheep roam free range and cause Irish traffic jams.  While on a bus tour we noticed that a lot of the sheep had color on their hind quarters.  So we inquired of the bus driver as to why?  Apparently it was mating season and the farmers would attach bags of die on the Rams and when they rammed a female it would break and then they would be able to tell which Ram stuck their ram in which female.  All I got to say is whatever Ram had the color red was very busy propagating the species.

They Called Him The Streak

Back in the 70’s there was a fad of people streaking thru public events wearing nothing but sneakers.  Someone even wrote a song about it.  Also for some reason one of my older siblings acted as the getaway driver for one.  Today if you were to do this, they’d hunt you down as a perv, lock you up and put you on a sex offenders list.  My how times have changed.

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Only Until Coffee

I remember on one youth camping trip with my child, they woke me in the middle of the night because they thought they heard an animal outside the tent and were scared.  So I listen to the sound and advised them there was nothing to fear, it was just Mr. Jones in an adjacent tent snoring and while he might be a bear before he had his AM coffee, we had nothing to fear at the moment.

Guess So

Someone I know use to own a beat up Astro van for work that he always left the keys in it, in the misguided belief that no one would ever want to steal it.  Well he didn’t take into consideration the drug addict who happened by looking for a ride.  They took his van and drove it to a local super market and proceeded to steal a cart worth of meat. So while my friend is making out his police report, another officer showed up at his house about the theft from the store.  Later that night the police happened upon the van a rockin & a rollin; finding the addict still in possession and entertaining a prostitute in the back.  While they found the van and the thief, the meat and my friends work tools were long gone.  My friend said he really cleaned the van well after he got it back and didn’t want to consider what might have occurred in it.

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So Sad

I once knew a person that was so miserable and disliked by people that their own dog would nip at them if they got to close.  They even tried to raise bees and the bees must have sensed something for they even deserted them, now that’s just sad.  Maybe they should move to a Cabin In The Woods, just not with me.

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Azz Wipe

I once knew a front end receptionist who got fired because she couldn’t remember the name of one of the people who “thought” they were important.  It hurt his ego, dick!  He obviously made no lasting impression on her.  I guess he has insecurities and an extreme need to be seen as if he matters.  Wear a name tag if it’s so important to you that people know who you believe you are.

GI Jane

Back in college the group I was hanging around with decided to get GI Joe’s.  The girls in our group got the GI Janes.  This is a strange but true fact about one of these GI Janes, whenever you dropped it, it would land with its legs spread apart, the others didn’t do this.  So being adolescent college boys, she got a lot of ribbing about that, as well as the Joes/Jane being setup in some suggestive arrangements.  There was a lot of immaturity going on.

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Payback

One of my children pissed me off about something (don’t remember) so before I went to work I changed their password to the computer.  Once they came home from school and realized what I had done I got a text asking for the new password.  So now my fun began, I responded, “ask your mother”.  Annoyed as I knew they would be they text back that mom was also at work and they had homework to do.  So I text them back that “askyourmother” is the password.  They didn’t find this funny, I did.  I mentioned this at work one day and a co-worker nearly fell off their seat laughing.  She then said, I have to remember to use that!

Learning Reality

One of my children has a retail job and it’s teaching them a lot about life and peoples bad behavior.  As an example the other day they are leaving the store that was closed when someone is approaching to enter so they tell them the store is closed.  They get the response, you’re wrong, it’s open.  It was of course closed, so much for offering curtesy to people who in turn bite your head off.

Context

On one ambulance call it was kind of cool what I saw at the hospital, not for the patient thou.  The patient had fallen thru sliding glass doors and cut their arm open; that we proceeded to treat.  At the hospital when the doctor was doing their exam the cut looked like a surgeon had peeled back the skin to see what was under it.  The doctor was asking the patient to move their fingers and you could see all the tendons/muscles moving as they did so.  At the time I was taking an anatomy and physiology class in college, it put that material into a whole new perspective that you didn’t get from dissecting cats.

Certain Advantage

There is a train station that I use to pick my spouse up at that is located alongside a river.  One time there was a major storm and the river flooded the parking lot after everyone had left for work for the day and then receded before they returned.  Storm tidal forces can be interesting.  I remember seeing all these people trying to start their cars to no avail since the electrical systems were fried.  Then one individual got in their 70’s Nova and turned the engine over and water came out of the tail pipe and off they went, with many stranded people giving them the evil eye.  Sometimes having old technology has its advantages.

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No G

These days it seems everyone wants a smart phone.  Not me, I guess I’m a minority old fart.  All that 3G, 4G, PG stuff doesn’t make any sense to me anyhow.  I just want to talk and text, all the rest is irrelevant anyway.

I remember the first cell phone I ever had access to, it had a shoulder strap to carry it since it was so heavy.  Then there was a big push to make cell phones smaller and smaller.  Now it seems to have gone in the opposite direction.

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