Today was both hilarious and sobering

First funny of the day, I am walking into work in a huge, and I mean bigger than a football field parking lot, and this guy comes strolling out of nowhere with a paper plate with two homemade burgers. There was no top, no plastic wrap, 2 burgers on a paper---not Styrofoam plate.   There is no place that I can see where this guy could have gotten this food. There has never, ever been this kind of food available at this place. This was like the most crazy thing I have ever seen. And of course, he was on his mobile phone. The parking lot Hamburgler.

Second funny of the day, remember the offensive Bosch dishwasher? Well it has been sitting at the curb since last Friday. Grosse Pointe Woods keeps promising to pick it up and just never gets around to actually doing the job. So today they put a notice in my door. We are terrible shits and asshats as we put our garbage out toooooo early. Well, egads, we have offended the neighbors. (And you all know those folks.) So Big Daddy calls the Department of Codes and Enforcement and goes through the QandA and the Department of Codes and Enforcement does not have a hand cart to come and help BD put the offending dishwasher in the garage until Thursday after 5 and then come back and help him put it back out again, and well, everything is okay for right now. Just forget it.

At 5 PM BD notices the dishwasher is gone and he suspects Mr. Freep (also known as the hoarder) has escaped his wife and swiped the dishwasher off the curb. Life here is always interesting.

Today I was driving down the road and talking to BD on my hands free, blue tooth, Ford Sync'ed phone when I almost reared a car stopped in the road. I slammed the braked and swerved right and prayed no one was in that lane. A huge Dodge Ram that was following me did the same and we both made it out okay. BD is right, you just don't pay attention when you are talking like you think you do. I was blessed not to have had a really bad time.

BD also had a bad time on his way home. The car in front of him was behind a vehicle with shit hanging off the back. That vehicle starting backing up and smashed some stuff hanging off the back right through the window of the car. BD said the lady honked and honked and then jumped out.  Yeowwzah, not good.

Yes, I should have had a picture of the dishwasher, and the burger, but really there was no time on the burger. And where was he going? He was not going toward the plant. Maybe he was not in this time, one of those time change things. That is scary.

Major Lifestyle Changes

No more Detroit Free Press. Since the announcement that the paper would be going to 3 day a week delivery and the fact the paper has been reduced to about 4 pages a section, 3 sections-I have been shopping for news. And the winners are-WJR on-line for local news, The Wall Street Journal as they have a bit of everything and "The Middle Seat" blog/opinion about the airline industry, The Washington Post-they have Miss Manners, and The New York Times for the crossword and Maureen Dowd. I love Maureen Dowd, she picks on everyone. All of this will cost about the same as the abysmal Freep.

Speaking of the NYT crossword I really enjoyed Rex Parkers's blog about the ACPT experience. I am still too chicken to compete but if Punkinhead still lives in NYC next year and I am still employed I might go just to watch. Lurk in the bar for famous crossword solvers. How rich.

Things learned while laid-off. I found a new television show on network TV. It is called The Doctors. First I thought why is a soap on the wrong channel in the morning. Then I noticed these are real doctors answering real problems. Like when should you be worried if your skin changes color. Blue is bad. And how men should check their testicles for lumps like women check their breasts. But men are too shy to check their boys. This is why the balls get blue.

Just one more comment (since I have no funny) on Michelle Obama's sleeveless statement, Joy Behar's fixation with Rush Limbaugh, and people orating on people orating. Come on now people.

If you can run your mouth- stop talking about how other people have no right to run their mouth. If one us can be an asshole, we all can be an asshole.

Joy, no one asked you do date Rush Limbaugh, do his laundry, or listen to his radio broadcast. We know you don't like him. Move on.

I made a statement that in my opinion Michelle Obama was sending the wrong message by appearing a in summer dress in a winter photo. We know it was winter because it was taken in February. And I feel with President Obama pushing to tax energy this is provocative statement that the Obama's do not have the feel the pain of lowering their energy bill or their carbon footprint. This is my opinion.------But I am sickened by the comments on many sites that tend to be racial in defending or condemning her clothes. It is clothes people.

The casual dress workplace has changed not only the way people think about dressing but also lessened the chances for learning how to dress from your supervisors. Some of us were not raised by parents knowing what was appropriate for every situation. The book about dressing for success explained how perceptions based on your appearance affected your chances for social acceptance, monetary gains, and public approval. Yes indeed people judge you on your appearance. Usually in a split second.

That said, women over 30 should only wear pink or red nail polish, no women should ever wear white shoes except in June, July and August, and one never wears a lightweight fabric in February (even in black) unless it is 80 degrees in New Orleans. Oh, and Michelle's dress would have looked more fashionable with a hanging pendant or long necklace, both currently on the cutting edge.