I love elderly folks - I really do. My favorite is seeing an elderly couple holding hands… or smooching.. or otherwise showing public displays of affection. It gives me warm fuzzies and makes me go ‘Awwww.’ I don’t think older folks get the respect they deserve, quite honestly. Too often, they are forgotten, pushed aside and otherwise disrespected - - even though these are the people who have ‘been there, done that’ and have probably forgotten more things that we, the younger generation, have yet to learn.
That being said - - please remind me to NEVER go grocery shopping in the middle of the day, ok? Normally, I go between 7-9pm at night.. when all of these wise, wonderful old people are tucking themselves into bed and aren’t moving negative 4 miles per hour in the grocery aisles. I love ‘em, I really do — but today, let’s just say that I spent more time in the grocery store than I wanted to… or that I usually do. My bad. Late evenings next time - - remind me.
So I got home.. put the groceries away… made a cup of coffee and then sat down at the computer to call Chris. Since he’s in London this week and I don’t want the expense of international phone calls, we’ve been chatting either on Skype or Yahoo. A few months back, I bought this nify headset/microphone thing that has amazing sound quality for internet phoning.
So I connect it and put the headset on and click the “Call” button to call Chris. As I’m waiting for him to answer the phone.. I take a sip of my coffee and the damn mouthpiece dips into my full cup of coffee.
Total. Blonde. Moment.
Think it will dry out and be useful someday? Arrgh.
4:46 pm on April 4th, 2007
HAHAHA.. You have no idea how close I’ve come to doing that exact same thing.
5:52 pm on April 4th, 2007
I am SO glad I’m not the only one! Ha!
Although, the fact that I DID it… and you almost did it - makes me the bigger loser here.
9:04 am on April 5th, 2007
Um, I’ve totally done that. hahaha!
9:11 am on April 5th, 2007
I’m happy to report that it survived.
And seriously, Joelle - shame on you for leaving your link here and letting a girl get all hopeful n’ shit. Winter 2006?? Oh reallllly?
2:41 pm on April 5th, 2007
I know it’s a total nerdy thng to say, but if you’re interested, there’s a great cordless usb phone you can buy for skype. I live in Germany and my family in England, so I use it a lot. At least it’d help you avoid blonde moments like that
http://accessories.skype.com/item?SID=ee5fa18def6e8bb5167353d061932542755:4580&sku=3045PHPROMO
3:14 pm on April 5th, 2007
Hey Mark - thanks for the tip! I can’t stand phones that I have to hold onto, though!
Knowing me and my blonde moments - I’d probably drop it in the toilet, or something
9:44 am on April 8th, 2007
I don’t understand why you bothered to share that with us. Must be some kind of woman thing huh?
7:58 pm on April 8th, 2007
Dave, not sure why you bothered to read it and then comment on it. Must be some kind of mental thing, huh?
8:49 pm on April 12th, 2007
So the entire grocery store was filled with gray-hairs, huh????
3:15 pm on April 13th, 2007
I was JUST venting to a friend about this the other day. Being sick and having to take a day off from work is bad enough, but then having to run to the grocery store mid-sickness for some medicine, and being stuck behind geriatrics that move like molasses, is horrible!
I swear. . . between the hours of 10am-3pm, it’s the grocery Tupperware parties for old folks. You thnk the supermarket is bad? Don’t even THINK about heading to Wal-Mart
6:54 pm on April 13th, 2007
Sorry you’re sick, but awwwww, those people are doing the best they can. Don’t be too hard on them, you’ll be there one of these days too.