Does this stuff make you wonder? Or maybe make you mad?

Time for my semiannual rant on the inane and the insignificant.  Call it “Bits and Pieces”— of the annoying and slightly humorous variety.

Full understanding of course, that with the international conflict going on in the world right now, the additional political disarray in this country, and everything from crime to climate disasters— there are MUCH greater problems today to worry about than what follows here.

But still…

Don’t you wonder, get mad, or maybe even laugh at some of these?

Like— The story of the math teacher in Kentucky who had a million dollar winning lottery ticket which he hid inside the pages of one of his classroom math books.  Trying to find the safest place to keep the ticket he was quoted as saying, “Hey, no one ever looks in a math book”.

Like— (oh, and I really love this one!) the story of the Los Angeles Housing Department building.  The same Housing Department that is in charge of mediating disputes between tenants and their landlords.  They were themselves evicted from their offices by their landlord.

Like— Can we stop with the automatic mini hand wave back and forth from the folks riding in a parade?  So condescending, and to make it worse, it is usually accompanied by a fake smile.  Give me a full all out enthusiastic arm wave, or holding a poster— even pointing, dancing, shouting, or throwing that equally annoying candy crap—anything except that pitiful little hand simply going back and forth.

Like— Why hasn’t any breakfast restaurant that I have EVER visited, figured out a better way to serve the eggs with a pancake side properly.  They all bring the eggs out with the hash browns, and then immediately after the pancake accompaniment. So, you typically eat the eggs and potatoes first, and then dig in for the pancake.  BUT, by that time the pancake is cold! A cold pancake is about as appetizing as uncooked bacon. I mean c’mon folks!  I am still waiting for the first breakfast spot to figure that out and bring me my pancake AFTER I have finished the eggs and taters.

Like— NBA star Paul George recently telling the press and media that his former team the LA Clippers  “disrespected” him with their contract offer.  The offer? 2 years, 60 million dollars.  Wow. We should all be so “disrespected”!

Like— Homeland Security using Stomp the Robot Dog to patrol the starting line of the Boston Marathon Race. A sign of the future I am sure, and at least “Stomp” does not require any bags for poop pick up (Here’s hoping robotics hasn’t come quite that far in realism).

Like— Going to a party where folks are given name tags, because most do not know each other.  A meet and greet of sorts. And then the names on the name tags are written so small you have to lean in to catch the person’s name. It is really embarrassing, slash borderline rude, to lean in and stare at someone’s chest, just to see what their name is. If you are going to require the wearing of name tags…then write the names big!

Not like, but love this one! —  The LGBTQ shirt the person I saw walking yesterday said, “We didn’t come this far— to only go this far”. Yes. Brilliantly stated.

Finally, the best tweet I saw recently (Having to do with the tornadoes that stormed through the great state of Iowa):  “The wind is so bad here in Iowa, our new state bird is lawn furniture”.

…And that is it for this edition of ramblings and rumblings (not sure if you feel any better—but I sure do!)