Late Nights At Walmart:

The cashier had been unaware I had opened the bag of Dove chocolate and had lifted the end, effectively spilling the contents across the floor and counter.  I had just cleaned up my mess and was swiping my card when he walked up.

"Excused me.  Did you hear her yell at me to calm down?"  "I'm sorry?"  "Did you hear her yell at me to calm down?"  I looked at him anoyingly, " I don't know what you're talking about".  He moved to the next guest, "Did you hear her?"  "Well I heard her say something but I didn't hear exactly what she said."  He became more excited, "Ok, you're the witness to a scene.  That lady in Customer Service just told me to calm down really loud.  She embarrassed me in front of the entire store".  I couldn't help but think that she shouldn't have bothered.  He was doing a fine job of embarassing himself. 

 After ranting to several customers in line he stormed off to find a manager only to return a few moments later.  I finished paying and pulled my cart out in front of the registers.  I suddenly decided to wait and see how the situation would resolve itself.  I stopped in the middle of the floor and unashamedly stared at him as he ranted on to the poor night clerk.  Two guys behind me finished checking out and slowly made their way to the door whille eyeing the situation.  I finally grew tired of the commotion and moved away. 

While I was walking towards the door with several other customers the irritated fellow finally grew tired of arguing and sped past me towards the door.  While passing me he turned, gave me his version of an evil stare, and spat, "Hey what you staring at b***h?"  It was then I did something that surprised even myself.  I laughed at him.  Right in his face.  And I wasn't the only one.  The whole store had seen the frenzy and found the situation amusing.  The kid stormed outside and performed a kick on a cart that would have given Napoleon Dynamtie a run for his money.  At this point in the spectacle the man ahead of me dropped his bag on the ground and bent over laughing.  I continued to my car with my bags chortling the whole way.  Late night at Walmarts.  It's better than standup comedy.

Our chefs can be very creative at times..... at times accidentally so.  Someone noticed this pepper looked like human .  Two eyes and walla...Veggie Tales...gross bad teeth

When you think you're in a bad place don't worry; it could be worse

They call him Eiker:

After 3 1/2 wks. I'm convinced that cat is a dog.  What cat drags shoes around the house?  The rattle of the keys at the door always brings him running.  He would promptly flop down so that he could get pushed across the tile floor by the door.  One morning while doing laundry in the basement a yellow ball of fur flew over my shoulder.  It was Eiker.  His body arched through the air headed toward the sound of water which oddly always seemed to make hime excited.  And his landing place?  Inside the rapidly filling washer.  That cat never stops making you laugh. 

I've been "watching" cats for a friend of a friends while they were in Spain.  Though the cat hair was annoying I must say I honestly enjoyed the assignment.  Not to mention the very liberal compensation that occompanied the job. 

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It's finally the Pennsylvania he remembered.  The mistake of visiting only during the summer was made several years in a row.  He had no idea that the beautiful state was cold for six months out of the year.  Or that spring didn't arrive until April.  Everyone told him it was a mild winter as if that somehow should make him happy.  It only made him more sad.  He thought maybe the gray skies would eventually bring snow but they rarely dropped their burden upon the landscape.  Week after week gray clouds scuttled across the land.  The weather oddly just seemed to do nothing.  Except be cold.  Historically he was only sick once during the winter.  This winter he was sick three times. 

Once while walking home late at night he thought he saw a ghost in a dark alley.  He soon realized it was one of his fellow citizens who hadn't felt the life giving rays of sun in what might as well have been eternity.  He walked on with pity in his heart for the suffering creature.  And he finally realized why people in the North weren't always friendly. It was because they were always cold.  And sometimes, when the skies were gray for a week at a time he wasn't very happy or friendly either.  But thankfully all things, even bad things, come to an end.  And spring finally arrived in Lancaster county and it made him happy.  He felt like a kid again.  He rode his bike all across Lancaster splashing through spring puddles and horse poop left behind by the Amish to annoy tourists.  And he went to parks and slept in the grass just like he did when he was a kid.  And he decided that he actually does like Lancaster after all, though the life he has built here looks nothing like the one he imagined himself living when he moved here last summer.  He isn't dissapointed in his life, only in the weather that haunted him for months.  So he will enjoy the summer and try to forget that winter is coming.  Because he knows that next year might not be a mild winter.  He understands why bears hibernates.  They know that sleep is fun so they do it all winter while the weather is ugly and then stay up all summer and enjoy the warm sunshine.  He thinks maybe next year he'll try it.

When my roomate came home he found a stanger in his bed........

This animal is so ugly I keep it just so that when I feel bad I look at this ugly creature and I know it could be worse......It's almost spring.....two more weeks and I'm taking my bike off the trainer....no more riding in my bedroom.......

I used to wonder why people from Pa. flocked to Florida during the months of January and Febuary.  Now I know.  I'm buying a home in Sarasota, asap.  Fly my private jet down there every winter. 

And you say it's been a mild winter.............Ahh but you mock me, with your white pale skin and your sunken eyes.  Every one needs a good dose of Vitamin D and a tan.   

This is me for the last month and for the next several months. Study hard and wait for spring......One more month....