It is Sunday, December 13 and there are only 12 days until
Christmas. Time to get the guar gum and
polysorbate so that your cookies will last until March. Today we remember the birthdays of Mary Todd
Lincoln, Carlos Montoya and Dick Van Dyke.
On this day in 863 Boudouin with the Iron Arm wed Charles de Kale’s
daughter Judith (I didn’t even know they were dating), in 1843 “A Christmas
Carol” by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold, and in 1969 Arlo
Guthrie released “Alice’s Restaurant.”
In Malta it is Republic Day and in Upper Volta it is National Day.
Still no word from the old home, so I am not sure if they
have gotten the CO or not. I have e-mailed
the buyer, but have not heard back yet.
I would assume that if there was a problem he would let me know. I guess no news is … no news. I will keep after it and hopefully everything
will work out. I just want this last
piece to fall into place so that we can truly be finished with the whole deal.
We were out on the road the other night and there was
construction going on (where isn’t there road work going on lately) and I
noticed, from some distance away, that they had lights set up. I know that they need light to see to do the
work at night. I understand that. However, unless the work is being done by the
astronauts in the space station, do the lights have to be that bright? Plus, the work is being done in a lane that
is closed to traffic. Why do the lights
have to shine in the eyes of the drivers in the other lanes? I was just wondering.
While we were out, I also noticed something else that I
thought was amusing. We were driving
along the road and saw a McDonald’s.
What I thought was funny was that directly across the road was an urgent
medical care facility. The question then
becomes who came first? Did the
McDonald’s come first and then the medical facility? Did the medical place set up there
intentionally, thinking it would be amusing? Was the medical place first and McDonald’s opened
without looking around? Either way, I
thought it was funny.
I am noticing more and more that people are lazy and I mean LAZY! It is especially
noticeable in supermarket parking lots.
If I had a nickel for every time I started to pull into a parking place
and had to stop because someone left their cart there, I would have enough
nickels to make my pants droop.
Seriously! Because it is an
issue, I decided to start watching people and observing their habits. One of the benefits of being retired is that
I have the time to do that. I also spend
a considerable amount of time running back and forth to the supermarket because
we have run out of something or forgot to get something that we needed … but I
digress.
As I was saying, I have had the opportunity to observe
people and see how they handle their carts.
Keep in mind that this issue is not restricted to older people. It is a problem with all age brackets. Well, not all brackets. Pre-teens are not that big a problem, but
they can be … digressing again. I have
seen people come out of the store, go to their cars, unload their groceries and
then push the cart into the nearest empty parking space. I have seen people unload their cart and then
leave it behind the car next to them. I
have seen them push the cart down the side of their car, just to get it out of
their way.
Two of the worst were two people I saw the other day. As I was coming into the lot, I watched a
young woman pushing an empty cart toward the store. I thought that she had taken one of the many
carts strewn about the parking lot to use for shopping. Wrong!
When she got to the end of the row of cars she gave the cart a big shove
and let it roll across to the front of the store. She didn’t even look to see if it made it all
the way over. She just pushed it, turned
and walked back to her car. The other
one I saw loaded his groceries into the car, left the cart in the middle of the
empty space next to him and drove off.
What makes this bad is that the space where he left it was right next to
the cart drop off. Five extra steps and
he would have been able to put the cart there instead. I could see this if it was 100 degrees out
and they had a bag full of ice cream, but it wasn’t and I am pretty sure they
didn’t.
The height of lazy that I witnessed recently was not
directly related to a cart. As I was
entering the store I saw a woman coming out riding one of those electric
carts. Walking with her was a young
man. When she got out of the store she
parked the cart got up and started to walk away. The young man said, “I don’t know why you
ride that cart when we come here. You
don’t need it and you are not handicapped.”
Her response was, “I ride it because I don’t feel like walking through
the whole store. The carts are there,
why shouldn’t I ride one?” I did not
hear his response and I am pretty sure she did not want to hear mine.
So, in the future, walk your cart to the proper drop off
spot. It will make it easier for others
to park, it will make it simpler for employees to collect them and the exercise
is good for you. This has been a public
service announcement. Thank you.
No comments:
Post a Comment