Man, I got 10.5 hours of sleep last night yet I’m still sitting here yawning. It’s a gloomy day in Chicagoland and our only plans are to get some food later. Joe just went to bed because he was up all night with insomnia. :(
Not sure what I’m going to do with the next few hours to pass the time, but Rollercoaster Tycoon is calling my name.
Dear Taco Bell Drive-Thru Employee,
When I ask for cheesy potatos as part of my order, and when I ask you to repeat back my order, and you say cheesy potatos, could you actually RING UP the potatos and put them in my bag? I’d really appreciate it.
Also, what’s with holding back on the hot sauce love? Could you at least ASK me if I want some? What is a taco without the hot sauce? It’s kinda blah, that’s what!
P.S. When I ask for ice water, I actually expect ICE to be in the water. Call me crazy. I know I’m so demanding that it makes your brain hurt. What was I thinking, actually expecting you to do a simple job?
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I think I irked the local police today. Oh well, so be it.
When I got home from work after 6 pm (worked late) today, I was inside my car, cleaning the windows, while three 10-year-old boys rode around the parking lot on their bikes. I overheard them talking about “getting this car” or something. Then as they passed my car, single file, I popped my head up just as the last kid in the line threw something that bounced off the car next to me with a loud ping.
So I went inside and called the police.
Was I overreacting? Perhaps. But keep in mind that about a year and a half ago my car, as well as several others, were vandalized in the same parking lot and it cost over $400 out of my pocket to get my car repaired. So if I feel that some punk-ass kids are acting disrespectful around other people’s property, I’m going to try and stop it.
After talking to the kids, the officer came to my door and pretty much treated me in a condescending manner. He tried to make me feel bad for telling on kids that were, as he put it “just ten years old.” Um, wasn’t it a 10-year-old boy who shot his own father this month? Uh yea, it was. So don’t try to treat me like I’m being ridiculous.
The officer informed me that the boys claim they were throwing crabapples at one another and hit some cars “by mistake” and that they were sorry and wanted to apologize. One of the kids’ parents was outside as well. I told the officer just to tell them to be more careful. He asked me if I wanted him to string them up by their ankles and beat them. He was totally poking fun at me. You had to be there. It really pisses me off thinking about it. I just explained to him what had happened with the cars getting keyed in the past and that these kids needed to respect other people’s property. It starts out innocent now, but who knows in a few years.
If it was even ten years ago, I probably wouldn’t have done anything. But the world today is different, and when you read in the news about gangs of kids who jump people just for the “fun of it” and some of those kids are as young as 7-years-old, you don’t think of 10-year-old little shits as innocent kids anymore. A man was shoved into the street by a group of kids and now he’s dead. So I didn’t really appreciate the way that officer treated me.
I really can’t wait until we move and I can put my car in the garage and stop worrying about it all the time. Now I’m going to have to check it carefully tomorrow. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I worry those kids might do something to my car to get back at me. That’s the primary reason I didn’t go back outside to talk to their parents; I’m hoping they don’t think it was me that called the cops on them. And if they really were innocent and I misinterpreted the situation, at least now they might watch their actions more carefully.
Joe’s Guide to Attracting Wildlife to Your Patio
1. While your fiancee is filling up the bird feeders, suggest to her that she put the bag of remaining food underneath the patio table instead of bringing it inside like she normally does.
2. Don’t check the patio for a few days.
3. When you do check, notice bag is now tipped over and full of holes from various birds and squirrels having their fill.
4. Still leave bag outside.
5. Find a baby opossum rummaging through the bag at night.
Sorry, no photos of the opossum; he ran off as soon as he realized we were watching him. Here’s the resulting mess, however. Joe is going to sweep it up tomorrow.
Update: He came back to eat more.
My friend sent this to me the other day. We don’t deal with telemarketers as we have cell phones, but I like the junk mail ideas, so I’m only posting those. :)
Andy Rooney’s tips
Junk Mail Help:
When you get “ads” enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these “ads” with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away. When you get those “pre-approved” letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage “IF” and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney’s (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn’t get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn’t on anything you send them. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents. The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let’s let them know what it’s like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they’re paying for it…Twice!
Let’s help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that’s why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea ! If enough people follow these tips, it will work—- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.