1. Have you ever noticed that
it is typically the houses that look abandoned, have unkempt yards,
no grass, and rusted-out cars littering the property, these are the
houses that have ‘No Trespassing’ signs. It’s like don’t
worry I don’t want to get any diseases by stepping foot on your
garbage property. How about taking the money you wasted on several No
Trespassing signs and using that for grass seed, or a bucket of house
paint?
2. I don’t understand how
someone can work for a supermarket chain and hate all of their bosses
so much that they constantly transfer to other stores in that chain.
I also don’t understand how if they hate management at all of these
stores why they don’t go work for another chain altogether, or
get into a different industry. Unless you signed a contract with your
job you are not forced to work there. It’s almost like they’d
rather just be angry and spiteful because it’s easier than looking
for a new job.
3. I grabbed a few energy
drinks at a local dollar store because they were crazy cheap. I didn’t
get a bag so I walked out and back to my car holding a few cans. On
my way, an old man, likely mid-70s, joked that I couldn’t drive home
if I was drinking those. I laughed and thought about offering one to
him but could already hear the ambulance sirens in my mind if the man
drank something like that.
4. It would have been my
Nana's 100th birthday this week. She has been gone for nearly 15
years but it only took me a few minutes to come up with a dozen
things that I immediately associate with her. It shows her importance
in my life even as our times together fade further into memories. I
do things like this because I want her memory to remain alive and as
long as I live all of my grandparents will live on.
5. I was paying for groceries
at self-checkout with cash. I had some extra change in the center
console of my car so this was an easy way to get rid of it. In the
end, I owed 1 more cent. I actually looked around the area for a
random penny on the floor, but no luck. I grabbed out a dollar and
wouldn’t you know it the dang machine eats it. It was a 10-minute
ordeal of finding someone to open the machine to get the dollar out.
The person who helped actually put a penny in so I wouldn’t have
to try the dollar again. To top it off the lady overseeing the
self-checkout area then decided to give me a lecture about how to
properly insert money into the machines. I said as nicely as I could
that I knew how to pay at self-checkout seeing as how I have done it
literally hundreds of times. As I walked out I said to myself ‘this
is going in the blog,’ and here it is.
6. I actually saw a cat
wandering around in a neighborhood. There was nothing odd about the
cat, but I feel like over the past several years, especially on Cape
Cod, outdoor cats have become increasingly rare. We have a
coyote problem down here. Not sure if outdoor cats are still common
in other places. Or maybe they still are everywhere and I just don’t
notice them.
7. So in all honestly what is
more dangerous? Texting while driving? Or having a dog in your lap?
They both seem equally irresponsible yet only one can get you a
ticket as far as I know. Are there laws against dogs being in a
driver’s lap? You wouldn’t have a child roaming around while you
drive, so why let a fidgety dog jump all around you while you’re
behind the wheel of a 2,000-pound weapon on wheels?
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| Cute but dangerous |
8. While out driving I saw
this beautiful Rolls-Royce. It was slowing down to turn onto the
road I was on. I was momentarily shocked and confused as I saw nobody
driving it. Then as it turned it all made sense, it was a European
model of the vehicle so the driver’s side was opposite to here in
the U.S. For a brief moment, I wondered if the Google Maps vehicle was
on Cape Cod, and also a Rolls-Royce for some reason.
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| The next Google Maps car? |
9. Every
now and then I see people driving in a parking lot and using their
turn signals when going up and down rows of vehicles. I think I see
this about as much as I see people using their turn signals for
actual turning on the road. Maybe not that much but it does seem odd
to use blinkers inside a parking lot. I have seen way more examples
of people not using their blinkers on the road though but I think
that’s more common everywhere these days.
10. I was thrilled when I
stepped on a set of bilateral scales at work and the numbers were
exactly the same on each. When I first got to my current job 3 years
ago I had a misaligned hip that caused the end at the time of my
competitive running. I was 15 lbs heavier on my left than my right
when I first used the bilateral scales. The work I’ve done to fix
my hips has paid off which makes me very happy. However, I was hit
with a cold slap of reality when I added the 2 scales up and it was
more than I had ever weighed in my life. So yay my hips are good
again, and boo it’s diet time.
