I just realized while reading a book about the life of  President Dwight Eisenhower that a quote in the book about Eisenhower's father David applies not only to David Eisenhower's  father but my father Arnold as well;
"Their father was absent even when he was there"

Just Another Day In My Personal Alternate Universe

OK so today I was in a local Supermarket and I wanted to buy a Poweball Ticket, a winning one of course. So I approached the lottery machine and started to put a 20.00 bill into the machine to buy a 2.00 ticket, expecting it to give me change. Luckily I read a small almost illegible notice on the machine which read " No change or refunds". Which meant I would have buy 10 tickets, an amount I was not interested in buying, since I really only needed the one winning ticket I was interested in buying.
Anyhow, I decided to go the Customer Service Booth near the lottery machine to get my 20.00 bill changed into 5s and 1s. As I approached the counter a small elderly man, a term I can use since I am an average size elderly man, rushed in front me, exclaimed " Do you mind if I cut in front of You?"
In other words asking my permission for something he had already done. So, I mumbled "Yes"
He then approached the clerk and breathlessly announced " I want a gift card"
The clerk said " how much money do you want put on the card?"
The man said "Do you have gift cards?"
The clerk said "How much money do want put on the card"
The man said" I want a gift card"
The clerk said "I don't understand, how much money do you want to put on the card?"
The man said"I don't care how much money is on the card I just want a gift card"
The clerk said " You can't just have a gift card"
The man said " I want a gift card and left "

I'm Back

I just can't seem to write something every day but I promise to try to write everyday or once a week whichever comes first.
Anyhow what got me started on the need to write or vent happened today. I was peacefully sitting in a local Fred Myers Supermarket enjoying a Starbucks refill coffee, when reality intruded upon me. What happened was the area of the supermarket I was sitting in had  6 or 7 tables with 4 chairs at each table. Everything was really quiet as everyone in the area was using the free WIFI or reading a newspaper or just talking to themselves, not that there's anything wrong that.
But, into this ideyllic scene came The Shopper. He was pushing an almost empty shopping cart, stopped it abreast of my table and decided he needed to be on the other side if my table, and instead of just walking around my table he proceeded to move all the empty chairs at my table into a straight line and them walking his cart and himself straight ahead.
At this point I thought about asking him to put the chairs back where he found them but I decided not to intrude on his warped view of reality, lest I run the risk of having to listen to his theories about how all the chairs in the world were always getting in his way.

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