Idiocy

Happy Halloween! And Some Other Stuff

October 31, 2005

It’s 7:46 PM and we’ve gotten more trick-or-treaters in the last couple of hours than we did during the previous three years combined. Cindy is so excited! She loves handing out candy and seeing all the kids in their cute little costumes. She’s not so thrilled with the older teenagers because most of them don’t [...]

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Garage/Yard Sale Weekend

September 29, 2005

One of my favorite garage sale moments happened a few years ago when Todd was getting rid of everything he owned in preparation for his move to Japan. A frumpy woman in a flowery shirt pulled a $5.00 metal wine rack off a shelf, looked at the price tag, and turned to Todd. “How much [...]

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Ill Will at Goodwill

September 18, 2005

Last Friday, I overheard three old ladies at a Goodwill talking about the New Orleans evacuees. I can’t begin to express how shocked and amazed I was at the ignorance of their comments. I’m not going to quote what they said because that would just take too long to recount. Let me just share their [...]

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5 Stitches

June 30, 2005

So, this morning I was opening one of those impossibly hard-to-open plastic packages with a box cutter thing that’s supposed to make opening plastic packages easy and cut a big gash in my left pinky finger, which required a trip to the emergency room and five stitches. First off, it’s a good thing Cindy was [...]

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Law & Order: “Special” Victims Unit

April 6, 2005

I have no idea how old this story is, but this is the first I’ve heard of it (via Kevin Drum), so I’m sharing it now. Listen in amazement to this woman who called the Sheriff’s Department because a fast food restaurant got her order “wrong”. (Quicktime) Now, I’ve been pissed at a few places [...]

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