Thursday, November 01, 2007
Thursday Thoughts # 8 – Things I Knew and Others Have Recently Learned
• Little babies in Florida can still get a nasty sunburn when placed in a car seat under an umbrella on a heavily overcast day for several hours. In spite of peeling skin, they still remain cuter than anything you have seen all day.
• Even if flights are delayed, baggage misplaced, and traffic is horrendous due to drenching rain, the metal pole in the garage will not be the item that bends when you hit it with the car while backing out and moaning how late you will be to work.
• Fall rainy days invite that first cozy fireplace fire, but artificial logs do not give off much smoke and you will be well into sootsville and ceiling smoke hanging like a low cloud when you realize that you have closed—not opened—the damper on the fireplace in your newly purchased house. Trying to carry half the artificial log out with a shovel only increases the probability of disaster.
• Soot on the newly painted fireplace mantel doesn’t really look as romantically antique as it should.
• Dumping the smoldering half log on the driveway in the pouring rain means you will have wonderful gray mush that little boys can walk through and eventually bring back into the house.
• Husbands are a little clueless when it comes to putting on Halloween costumes so, do not be surprised if your little guy goes out with his Lightning McQueen costume on backwards!
• Direct TV is a lousy company. Their website says: “We Do the Work, You Watch TV. DIRECTV provides free professional installation free, service and maintenance and a 100% satisfaction guarantee. You can't get that with your cable TV company or other satellite TV companies. The proof is in the pudding!” The proof is they send you not once but twice a defective HD-DVR box. They speedily (3 days delay) send out the third box and they expect you to install it yourself. They also expect you to swallow the loss of hours of programming of your favorite series that still reside on the old box. This is a big deal only because the kids paid so much for the stupid service.
• If you ask grandpas to help with garage clean-up you must realize that it will be natural for bull-in-a-china-shop type of activities to transpire. The garage door opener will cease to work and you must wait for grandma to get home and figure it out.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Your life is mimicking mine, it seems! Never a dull moment, huh?
ReplyDeleteIn other words, nothing goes right, nothing works and you're hacked. I got it.
ReplyDeleteLOLOLOLOL Been there, DOne that!!! Switched to DISH TV
ReplyDeleteOh dear! You've been busy - the kind of busy that makes you just want to climb into a tub with Calgon and read a book that has nothing to do with other people - maybe a book about the life of a red-spotted brush dweller from birth to demise.
ReplyDeleteThat pole doesn't bend, huh? (thanks for letting us have a chuckle at your expense)
Wow. Here's hoping the rest of the year goes better for you.
ReplyDeleteLMAO....oh dear! sometimes you gotta live and learn.
ReplyDeleteWe just got home from a busy day to find our "set-top box" on our TV isn't working for the Patriots football game my husband was counting on all day. I called our cable company, Time-Warner, which has a monopoly in our area, so they don't have to provide good service. I was trying to describe the outage to them and my husband was yelling from the TV room, telling me what to say. I just handed the phone to him. He didn't get anywhere, and ended up taking all the cords out of the back of the TV, replugging them all in, and somehow bypassing the box and getting the football game on. It's really sad how dependent we are on our electronic entertainment, and on the corporations that provide it - fitfully. MLFullFath.
ReplyDelete