Thursday Thoughts

Why are people more upset about health reform than war? We went to Iraq, we lost thousands of innocent young men and women for no damn good reason. We knew Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction but we invaded and killed innocent Americans and Iraqi’s anyway. Do you even hear much about Iraq anymore? Where were the protestors then in droves? When a woman would protest they would say she was nuts. But health care for me and you is something to protest, harm or worth kill living people for and throwing rocks into windows? It makes no sense to me at all.  Why is the right always so violent? I don’t understand it.

If you want to find Saddam sign him up for AARP. AARP finds me no matter where I move and I don’t ever notify them of my moves.  I think they should be on the case.

I am gritting my teeth so badly that I am getting severe ear and neck pain. I have broken 2 of my mouth guards and they are so expensive. I bought a cheap one from the pharmacy and that one isn’t stopping anything. What next? Of course the dentist wants me to have another one made. I wish I could just stop grinding. I don’t know why it started and why it won’t go away. It’s painful as hell. Has anyone out there ever able to just stop this?

My husband has a thing about texting and driving. He feels the same about talking on the phone but texting makes his blood boil. Because he is on the road all day he has a lot more experience with this than me. He is always telling me how people come into his lane and he has to honk and “wake them up” He also is in a work van so he sits higher and can see what they are doing. He told me about this girl texting and “driving” with her knee. Amazing. He has been run off the road more times than he can count.

Last Thursday he was on a 5 lane highway and this young woman with an empty baby seat in the back was weaving all over the road. Before he was next to her he thought maybe she was drunk. Then when he was on the left of her he saw her on the phone texting. As they were going down the highway she came into his lane and he couldn’t go into the lane to the left of him because he would hit that person. He honked and she was oblivious. She was weaving all over the place. This continued into our development where she ran a stop sign. Now she was just using the phone as a phone. He was now behind her. He saw her pull into her driveway and he pulled up in front of her house and put his window down. When she got out of her car she had the phone attached to her ear. He said to her as she looked his way, “Ma’am you almost killed yourself and others on the highway you might consider not talking or texting on the phone while you are driving.” She gave him the finger and got back in her car and he noticed she was following him home. He got out of his van and came into the house as she drove by still on the phone and flipping him off. He came in and told me about this. I asked, “When you spoke to her were you yelling? And honestly do you think anyone is going to listen to a random guy?” Knowing that he isn’t like that but if he were really pissed off he may have yelled. He said, “No I was just trying to make her see that she shouldn’t be texting & talking on the damn phone. I don’t understand why people think they can multi task while driving. And honestly it’s a good thing that baby seat in her car was empty.”

I was making dinner and there was a knock on our door. Rick got it. It was the sheriff department. A man and a woman came into our home and asked Rick if he was harassing a young woman on such and such a street. She thought you were following her home. Stalking her per se. Rick explained what had happened and yes he was behind her when she turned into our development but that is because I live here too. She followed me here so she knows that. The sheriff stated that the woman didn’t know he lived here and told the sheriff that Rick had followed her to her house and when the sheriff asked about this man she told him the company name on the van. The sheriff said we found your home from the name on the van. So Rick explains what he believes happens which is the opposite of this woman’s version. She denied being on the phone or texting. Which of course Rick explains that he wouldn’t give a shit about this young woman if she hadn’t been on the phone and weaving in and out of traffic. The end result was the sheriffs leaving and nothing being done except making Rick angrier.

I told him to just leave people alone. They suck. This was partly his fault too and to let it go and leave people the hell alone. You can’t make them listen. They think they will never hurt anyone while texting or talking on the phone. You can’t change it and you talking to this woman in any way was just damn foolish. Then what happens yesterday? A woman on her phone texting rolled into Rick’s van at the gas pump at only 5 mph while he was standing there filling up his van. It was enough to move his van forward. She had kids in the car. Being the smart ass person he is when she gets out and asks if there was damage he says, “Oh yea” looking at her car. She stopped texting for a whole second to look. She said, “there doesn’t seem to be any” He said, “I know I just wanted to see if you’d stop texting for a minute.” He can be such an ass. I get why this frustrates him but I wouldn’t waste my time on these dumb asses. Nothing will make them stop. But he must stop this foolishness of trying to change them.