Underneath It

Big or small, everyone has an agenda.  I don’t understand why that reality surprises so many people.  We all want something, sometimes good, often bad, but it’s all the same.  I was donating cloths and someone told me I should claim them on my taxes.  Their agenda was the tax credit; mine was just to donate to someone who could use them, neither bad, but clearly an agenda.

House Of…

In the Game of Thrones everyone pledges allegiance to this house or that.  So I’ve decide to start my own house.  The House Cranky Muze, should my banner be a Cabin In The Woods?  Perhaps, or maybe I should come up with something else?  Then I can form alliances with other houses and maybe I can talk them into downsizing from their castles to log cabins, less upkeep. My royal blood also maybe lacking like that character Little Finger, so maybe I should have the nickname of Middle Finger?

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Hitch A Ride

In college my final major was history, being that, I took some classes on African history.  The main reason for this was the professor.  When he was discussing parts of Africa it was not from a text book, but rather from personal experience.  When we discussed the history of Timbuctoo, he had been there and had a slideshow.  It was the same on the other topics he discussed and I found it extremely interesting.

One story he told was how he hitched hiked across the Sahara desert after completing some research.  He had enough money to fly out of Morocco back to England but not enough to pay for the transport across the Sahara to get there. So he hitched rides on fig trucks in the 100+ degree heat.  He said what amazed him most about this was when they would hit an oasis the drivers would stop and build a fire to heat up water for tea.  He said he likes tea like any Englishman, but not that much.

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Hungry Hole

Back when I found it necessary to relay on my Yugo to get me to and from work it had a stroke and died; what a surprise.  So a friend of mine at the time was in grad school and wasn’t using their car so they loaned it to me while I worked on replacing my prior transit unit.

On my return home from work one night I merged from Rt. 84 to the Taconic and on this occasion I hit a large pot hole.  Upon getting home I realized that I had lost a hub cap to that hole.  Wanting to return the car the way I got it I stopped at that spot the next day.  When I went down the hill to retrieve the hub cap it quickly became apparent that this pot hole had been building up quite a collection for there were dozens of them down there.  That’s when I realized I didn’t know what was on the car I was driving or even what the hub caps looked like.  It wasn’t upon returning to the car that I realized that the three remaining ones on the car didn’t even match either, problem solved.  So I went back and retrieved 2 hub caps of the right size; putting one on the car and the other in the trunk as an extra.  I avoided that hole in the future so as not to lose anymore hub caps for it took weeks for the State to fill in that pot hole.  I should have gone back and collected all those hub caps and open a store, why should the pot holes collection have gone to waste.

Dutchless

Went out to lunch the other day and there was a young couple eating nearby.  It got kind of funny when the check arrived.  He was asking her to put it on her debit card and he’d give her cash and vice versa.  I don’t think this was a date, but rather just getting together, however, they should have worked out payment of the bill in advance.  Turns out neither had enough money on their respective debit cards to cover the bill.  Guess it’s time to wash some dish’s, I was half tempted to pay the bill for them.  Eventually they scraped together enough money to pay and were on their way.

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Drill Away

Back when schools still had shop class, mine was making this duck thing that held spindles of thread.  I was assigned the task of operating the drill press to make the holes.  We were learning the production line technique and I guess I had the IQ high enough to drill holes.  This greatly upset the more popular kids aka bullies who thought their IQ was higher and they should be drilling those holes.  There were a lot of threats to my person if I didn’t give up the task.  But being a stubborn German and having 5 older brothers, I didn’t relent since the bullies had no power anyhow.  So with glee I drilled away.  Our final product was very ugly, but despite this my mother kept it for years.

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No Really

A cashier scans the customers 15% coupon and the customer doubts it’s correct. So the cashier does the math on a calculator and gets the same answer.  Of course customer still disagrees with the cashier and asks for a manager.  So the manager arrives and also comes up with the same answer, so finally the customer accepts it, but…  On their way out they make a comment to the manager that the cashier should know how to do their job better.  So a computer and two people all give them the same answer and yet they were still believe their correct in their ass(u)mptions?   Must be nice to always be right and know it.

The Chicken Cried

Went to a wedding reception once where the best thing served was the bread.  I don’t know what that sauce was, but I’ve never had chicken so unpalatable.  One of my siblings who has run many a restaurant went up to the caterer and told them they ripped the bride and groom off by calling that food.  Heck a dog would turn its nose up to this chicken.

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Unfortunate Seating

I was in a dinner the other day and they unfortunately sat me in a booth next to a college student who was whining about her life and a particular professor at school.  She turned in 7/10 of a project and felt that would be enough.  She was all put out when the professor gave her an incomplete.  Her attitude was, how dare they, I did a lot of work on that.  How about actually doing the complete project next time?  It’s easy to be incomplete in life, so do the whole thing.

The Review

I was in upstate New York recently and it was a bit chilly.  One morning it was -3 outside and snowing, not a real surprise for a winter day there.  I had booked my hotel for the weekend thru a website and when I got home they asked me to do a review.  So I made a comment about the fine weather and that the eggs served in the morning were somehow water down.  Then it asked for my favorite attraction there, so I selected “beach”.   Sounds about right?

Dick Alert

I was driving in the left hand lane passing slower cars on a trip.  I was doing 60 in a 50 mph zone when I notice a car aggressively approach in my rear view mirror and settle into my tail pipe.  An instant Dick Alert went off in my head.  As I passed the last car I was about to change lanes, but apparently not fast enough for the idiot behind me.  Before I could proceed, they started to flash their high beams, bad idea.  I’m sorry, but you don’t own the road and guess what, I’m now not changing lanes.  So they had to change lanes behind me via the right lane and then cut in front of me.  After bending them to my will, only then did I change lanes.  As I said, Dick Alert!

Fooled

I was attending a gun show and walking around looking at what I had no money to afford when I spied what appeared to be a folded $100 on the floor, which I scooped up quickly and went on my now merry way.  Now believing I had $100 I wandered around thinking of what I might be able to get, at least until I unfolded it.  It was of course a fake and had an ad on it back.  So I had fallen for someone marketing ploy.  It really sucked!

No Depth

When it comes to backing up vehicles I have lousy depth perception and always stop to soon, which is actually a good thing.  One ambulance I use to drive had a light bar mounted in the middle of the back of the box.  As I backed into a hospital I didn’t see the column that was dead center of the box and when I got out I was inches from crushing that light bar.  This situation is why I don’t mind this flaw in me at all.

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I was watching a group of volunteer teens do a community project.  They were moving paving stones and having a competition as to who could carry the most.  Ah youngsters and testosterone, it didn’t last long thou before they wore out and realized they had a wheel barrel and no girls to impress.  Some were working hard while others were working smart, maybe they learned something.

Me Last

I love it when people get mad that we can’t make a speedy decision on what they feel is their cut and dry situation.  Your situation maybe clear, but it still has to wait its turn behind everyone who got here first.  We take care of each claim in the order it’s received and since these are not life and death issues, chill out.  You an’t special and maybe I’ll put a hold on it and you’ll go back to the end of the line.