Ice Cream Spy Photos

Poster hanging in an ice cream store down in Florida:

Attractive but blind.

Another notebook blurb...a quote I wrote down from one of my friend's in regard to himself:

"That's what God does to ya, gives ya good looks but bad eye sight so ya can't see it."

Trust these guys.

Monday night a couple of friends and I got to witness True Life - Fire Fighters & Cops at Their Best...

We saw flashing lights, heard sirens, and then watched a fire engine and a police car sit idle. After a bit, the cop got out of his car, walked on the sidewalk over to the fire engine while he fixed himself like a baseball player. Then, the fire engines siren went off twice over the next 10 minutes. We're not so sure if the guy in the fire engine knew how to work the sirens since he yelled to his associates, after setting the siren off for the second time in suburbia, in the middle of the night....."The first time was an accident...the second time, I don't even know."

Sure....all the soccer moms and I would love and trust you, Mr. Fireman and Mr. Policeman, to save us if we find ourselves stuck in danger or in a fire.

Quitting Smoking Gives You Gas?

During dinner the other evening father and I were debating how many years ago he quit smoking when mother interrupted with "Too bad I couldn't quit because I thought it'd give me gas."

Um...what?

So, explanation...the parentals smoked during my childhood and upon the decision to quit, they went to a hypnotist. Father was able to quit, however it took mother another 14 years...because she thought it'd give her gas.

The hypnotist had a thick Russian accent and in his efforts to not only stop them from smoking but to also prevent them from the norm side affect of gaining a massive amount of weight, he said "if you put food in your mouth, you will get fat." BUT, mother misheard and thought he said "if you put food in your mouth, you will fart."

So the next week went on in which neither parentals touch a cigarette. Yet, mother didn't really eat, drink, chew gum, and even feared brushing her teeth....she thought if she put anything in her mouth she'd fart.

Result being, father quit smoking. Mother quit 14 years later.

Moon Sand Condoms

Recently I went to Target to purchase moon sand...yes, moon sand.

As I'm standing in line, the guy in front of me gets carded as he's purchasing condoms. Being the responsible adult I am, I chuckle and turn around.

As I turn around, a little girl and her mother are standing behind me. The little girl (probably age 5) sees the moon sand and tells her mother how she wants more moon sand. The mother comments to me how she didn't know it could be purchased individually...and then the little girl tells me how she got it for Christmas and how great it is...followed by another person chiming in with their moon sand love. Next, the whole line starts talking about the sand foam--for ages 4-8--that the 20+ year old is purchasing.***

WTF, shouldn't the attention be on the underaged kid buying condoms...I was clearly shocked he was carded. Lesson of the day, moon sand NOT condoms is a bigger attention grabber AND apparantly condoms are like porn, cigaretts, alcohol, and voting...there's an age limit.

***Not that I need to defend my purchase of the moon sand but it was indeed for a friend. Granted they too are a 20+ year old but it was for a friend. I bet the underaged condom buyer can't say that about the condoms.

Where ya sitting, mate?

Sweet disappearing act, eh?

I keep notebooks...little notebooks with random notes, thoughts, quotes, drawings, etc in them. I found one last night from a couple years ago and here's one of perhaps many notebook blurbs to come.

Boarding a plane at the Adelaide (Australia) airport. Theres a team of car racers on our plane. As we were boarding one guy about 10 rows back yells up ahead..."Mate, where ya sitting?"

His friend yells back, "Back of the plane...never seen an airplane back into a mountain, mate."