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.
HAHAHA.. You have no idea how close I’ve come to doing that exact same thing.
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. 8-}
Um, I’ve totally done that. hahaha!
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? :p
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
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 =))
I don’t understand why you bothered to share that with us. Must be some kind of woman thing huh?
Dave, not sure why you bothered to read it and then comment on it. Must be some kind of mental thing, huh? 😉
So the entire grocery store was filled with gray-hairs, huh???? 😡
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 8-|
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. 🙂