NFRC: I'm having one of those *weird* days wherein the world doesn't seem to

marilynfl

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make sense in the way i'm expecting.

I stopped at Walmart to pick up my favorite yogurt (Greek Gods HONEY flavor) which costs slightly LESS for a 32 oz container than a 24-oz container at our beachside health food store. While there, I passed a young man walking down the aisle holding onto the arm of a tiny elderly lady....either his grandmother or--more likely--great-grandmother. She wore a long pale flowered dress (in a world of shorts and flip-flops) and had spit curls in her white hair.

As they passed me, these words came out of her tiny mouth: "I wanted to go back, get my gun and shoot the fu*ker."

I actually STOPPED in my tracks (next to an end cap of flip-flops) and blinked, trying to force my brain to make sense from what my ears had just heard.

Then I picked up a tube of "Softlips Vanilla" lip balm with SPF. Sounds nice and gentle, right? Here's the list of ingredients: ozerkerlite, squalane, ethylhexyl palmitate, petrolatum, myristyl myristate, myristyl laurate, myristyl alcohol, BHT, menthol, tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E).

More blinking followed because now I'm wondering "which" of those words is the "vanilla" flavor I'm tasting.

 
Maybe she has dementia, they say some weird stuff sometimes.

Or it might be the birds after her cherry tree or a blue jay dive bombing her cat...I know the feeling. (Though would never do it.)

Also, could've been that time Wild Bill Hickok came to town (well you said she was old!)

 
When my Mom turned 60, she announced that she was officially "old enough" to say what she...

...was thinking, and let the chits fall where they may!

We enjoyed 5 years of "Mom, unfiltered"!

I think the statement, "Chickens eat with their peckers!" originated with her.

Michael

 
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