Even I'm a Dumbass Sometimes... Yes me.

So this morning, I am running some errands to acquire some stuff for Thursday Lunch at work, since it is my turn to grill. As I am driving through the Albertson's parking lot, I am approaching the area right in front of the store where you have to stop. No one is in this crosswalk area as I am approaching, and I think to myself, right on! I'll just pull a quick stop, and proceed through! As I am coming to a stop, out of nowhere, there are 12 people (or it seemed like 12 or 13 or 14) right there, wanting to cross in front of me in a frenzied manner. Arrrrrrgh!!

Without thinking, I say to myself, "why weren't there any people here until I stopped??".

Just then, I hear a woman say, "Go ahead! I wouldn't want to make you mad by making you wait!"

Busted! My windows were down, and I was thinking out loud... Did I feel like a dumbass? You bet I did!

Funny thing is, I still haven't gotten my Wyoming License plates, so that lady was probably thinking that I was another one of those damned California assholes driving a BMW who has come to invade small town America... :)

So remember kids, as my father used to tell me when I was young...

"Engage Brain Before Opening Mouth!"

Grammar Made Simple

I stumbled across this on a post on one of the BMW Forums that I frequent... ...and I liked it too much and had to copy it... ...unfortunately, most of the people that frequest my blog aren't the ones who need this! Oh well, maybe someone else can use it.

YOU'RE - contraction for "you are"
YOUR - everything else
TWO - the number, 2
TOO - also (me too), excess (too much)
TO - everything else
IT'S - contraction for "it is"
ITS - possessive
THEIR - possessive
THEY'RE - contraction for "they are"
THERE - everything else

Racism? Here?

So I was out for a drive this evening, and I passed by one of the local motels. On their nice changable message sign, the following message was flashing across it: American Owned and Operated. That's a little overtly racist don't you think? Do these people have something against Asians and people from India?

Technology

Why don't some people get it? The year is 2005, it's not 1975, and if you are going to even exist in this Century, you need to have some basic things... An answering machine, a cell phone, and... EMAIL access! But yet some people just don't get it...

OK, go ahead and blame me...

Yesterday afternoon, I thought that maybe it would be a good idea to wash the car. Once I had it washed, I thought, hey, it hasn't been waxed in over a year now! So, I waxed it. Then it rained... You can blame me...

Litterbugs and White Trash

Litterbugs. That word takes me back to being in First or Second Grade. But today, it came back to me. I just happened to be looking out of the window of my office that faces the street. This beat-up, faded blue, 2 wheel drive, supercab Ford Ranger was sitting at the stop sign. In it sat a guy with a scraggly beard, a mullet, wearing a wife-beater, a hat partronizing some nascar driver, cigarette hanging out of his mouth, no seatbelt on, I know that you have seen it, this guy was a White Trash Poster Child. Don't let this happen to you!

Anyway, he proceeds to open his door, and ever so gracefully, he places a cup from McDonalds on the ground beneath of his pickup, and then drives off. What an a--hole! As you can imagine, it made me want to run outside and pitch a rock through his back window. But, an act of retribution like that won't accomplish anything, White Trash is White Trash and there is nothing that can be done about it.

The Private Sector

The company that I work for is of course in the private sector. I long ago decided that I didn't want anything to do with the public sector. Although, if I remember right, theose public sector guys at in the Bay Area with the VTA sure made obscene money. Anyway, this after noon there was a meeting in the conference room, and I just happened to be in there retrieving some of my water samples from the refrigerator. Now, our conference room is furnished with some very , very nice custom rustic rolling desk chairs, with a matching conference table, and of course all of the cabinets and book cases match. Let me tell you, it's very impressive. The people who were there for the meeting were from various municipalities, was well as the State D.O.T. Everyone there was commenting on how beautiful the accomodations were. One fella said "well, in the private sector, they can do things like this." Another said, "yeah, in the private sector there is way more money for things like this." It made me smile, all that I could think of was the part in the movie Ghostbusters where they are losing their grant money and about to get kicked out of their offices. Dan Akroyd's character says something to the effect of "you've never worked in the private sector have you? I have, and in the private sector, they expect results!" Ha!