Important Stuff -- Or Not: On the Road

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

On the Road

I'm using the house computer at the MicroTel in Springfield Il. For some reason, my laptop wireless card isn't working. I'll deal with that today. I stopped at a Cracker Barrel in eastern Ohio Sunday and saw the most astonishing thing. There was a guy there in his 40s busing tables. As soon as he got to a table, it was as if he went into turbo-power. It LITERALLY looked like someone had pushed the fast forward button on a VCR. I timed him and he could clear a table in 5-10 seconds. It took about 50-60 seconds for the other busboy to do it. And he didn't just throw stuff into a a pan, he sorted everything into its place. He told a woman at another table that he'd been a busboy for 16 years. He said 14 years ago, he was on television as the country's fastest busboy. Yet, here he was at a Cracker Barrel in Ohio. I finished my meal and before I was halfway up, he was at my table. He just appeared out of nowhere. My table was clean before I could leave the dining room. I've seen a lot of remarkable things in my world travels, but I'll have to file this one away as one of the most impressive. My right rear tire went low yesterday. That's a new tire, maybe a month old. So, I stopped to put some air in it. I stopped at six gas stations and none of them had air. I finally had to go to a truck stop and they had air only on the trucker side. Has someone invented flat-proof tires that I haven't heard about? Everywhere I stopped, people would remark on my car. "Nice ride," from some hippy-type at a gas pump, "pretty car," from some lady in a parking lot, "impressive," from some kid working at a convenience store. It felt good, but how do you respond to stuff like that. "Thanks, I made it myself." "Thanks, I picked it out all by myself." I usually just say, "Yes, I was lucky to find it." That seems to do it. I'll be visiting friends all day and then I hit the road again tomorrow. I'm going to try to make it in one haul so I get home in time to pick up my cats before checkout time. That's no place to pay an extra day.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Sheesh. Maybe you should wear a "caution" sign with all the things going out of order around you. You don't want to be responsible for someone's pacemaker quitting. ;)

Just say "thanks" delivered with a nice warm smile when someone compliments your car. I like the part about "I was lucky to find it." No more than that needed. :); 2:43 PM
Cathy said...: Hey Kimosabe... people out here in the midwest are just friendly. Frenziedfeline is absolutely correct... a thanks and a smile.

Most Shell stations in the area have free air.

Now... if you are coming back the same way... The hubby and I would love to take you out to lunch... breakfast... dinner...(let me know if you are interested and I'll see what I can do about asking off work). We are just south of Cincinnati...Michael actually works in Cincy.

If you prefer to keep your anonymity... I completely understand and respect that... Just know the invitation is there.; 8:37 PM
Trader Rick said...: Ohio's kinda goofy, eh?; 5:35 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Thanks, cathy, but I'll be passing way north of you. I've got to make it home tonight so I can check my cats out of their hotel before noon tomorrow. If I leave no later than 9 am central time, I'll hopefully get home at 2 am eastern time. My problem is I never build any wiggle room into my itinerary. No sights for me, just hard driving.; 6:43 AM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.