On my last trip, I was in the last row on both my flights.  Both times, there were gaps several rows in front yet the people with me in the back waited for everyone to move out before they moved forward.  On the last flight, I politely pushed my way out of my seat past one of these “waiters” and proceeded to move up until I was at the head of the gap.

OK so no one cares, but I just don’t get it.

From all accounts she’s a great kids and an honor student, but I don’t go sending every honor student a graduation gift just because I met them a few times.  I don’t get it.  This isn’t really completely about this situation but many others over the years as well.  Why send a graduation invitation and hence a request for a graduation gift, to everyone you’ve ever known?  There may well be a valid answer that I just don’t know about.  If so, hopefully someone can straighten me out on it.

You have to understand too that my mom is really different from most of the moms that I know.  She’s so laid back (like me) in most ways and never sticks her nose into anyone else’s business.  When she comes to visit for any length of time, you’d almost forget that she’s here.  She doesn’t inject herself where she shouldn’t and she doesn’t try to imply that you’re doing something the wrong way because you aren’t doing it the way that she would.  I mean never.

My wife has a really good relationship with her as well.  It’s pretty easy because she’s never critical and always supportive.  Like a mom should be.  I’m not being critical of anyone else, either though.  I get along fine with my mother-in-law, but I don’t know any mom as easy to get along with as mine.  Whether you are family or not.  She’s quite a lady.

Now find all of the good that’s in your mom and give her a call.  If you don’t, you will be sorry later when it’s too late.

When my father in law was sick and in the hospital we didn’t really know how serious it was.  He was in and out of the hospital and he got really bad, then seemed to be doing well again.  My wife had planned on making the trip to visit him, but almost decided not to go because he was doing so much better.  I told her that no matter what she would never regret going, even if he got well, but if he took a turn for the worst before we got back up there to visit, she’d always regret not going.  Well, she spent several days up there with her dad in the hospital while he seemed to be doing really well.  She flew back home and a few days later we were heading up to visit for Thanksgiving.  He had surgery while we were on the way up and they found that he had cancer something awful.  There were complications because of the cancer and the surgery and my wife wasn’t able to get to talk to him again.  We’re sure glad that she got to talk with him and spend some really nice time with him before things turned so bad.

So what are you waiting for, call your mom and dad while you still can.

Is it me, or has President Obama already taken more vacations since taking office than most people take in 20 years?  He seems to be picking nice vacation spots to travel – with his family in tow – to push his takeover of healthcare (and take away our freedoms).

Do that many people really drive their kids to school?  My summer 13 minute drive to work becomes a 30 minute drive the day school starts back for kids.  Maybe it’s a Greenville, SC thing.  I don’t know.

When did we become entertainment directors for our children?  If you don’t have something planned for when their plans don’t pan out, they whine and complain about being bored.  Maybe I should get them a job working on a farm somewhere every time they complain about that.  It sure kept me busy when I was a kid.

Why do people buy lottery tickets expecting to win eventually while never believing they will be in an auto accident or struck by lightning when the former is much more likely than both the latter?

Is there anyone left in government who doesn’t believe that it’s the government’s job to run every aspect of our lives?

Does anyone except those claiming to be improving the economy actually see the economy improving any?

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You hear them complain about dogs crapping everywhere, but they seem to think that their catshit, since it’s hidden in my mulch, isn’t a problem for anyone.  WELL IT IS!

First off, catshit is the worst smelling substance known to man.  Secondly, if your cat is so damn precious, keep it locked up in your house safe and sound with a litter box so you can deal with the stench instead of making everyone else do it when they try to work on their landscaping.

I had no more put out my fresh mulch, then taken a shower than my neighbors cats had already been scratching around in it hiding the evidence.  Maybe I should bag it up and return it to its rightful owner.  Ya think that would help things?

I had an eye infection of some sort in December that somehow really scewed up my vision in my right eye.  The same thing happened about 6 years ago, but over a few months it got back to normal.  Not this time.  The eye doc told me that my left eye is 20/15, (not too bad for a 43 y.o.), but my right eye is really bad.  He was concerned that if he gave me the full strength prescription, the difference between my eyes would make me dizzy.  Even with a slightly lower strength, I’m having problems getting used to it.  Only time will tell if I’m able to take it or if I’ll give up and stop wearing them.

Does anyone else have a problem wearing glasses?  I wonder…

I don’t understand as much about this proposal as I’d like, but from what I can tell McCain is at least partially right on it.  I don’t think that any type of cap and trade system is necessary for one thing, but for another reasonable.

It gets back to the same old line.  The media is beating the drum of the far left and pushing us further to the left by making knuckleheads believe global warming is real.  Then they want you to believe that a huge bureacracy can buy their way out of it by charging people for everything from driving cars to running their home airconditioners or eating beef (cow farts are causing global warming you know).

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of extremists from both sides pushing their bs on the rest of us.  I’m a Republican but on social issues I’m more aligned with Libertarians.  Don’t tell me I can’t buy alcohol on Sunday because you don’t like it.  If it’s legal on Monday, why not on Sunday?  And don’t give me the whole wine wasn’t wine crap either.  Read YOUR HISTORY to see where that mess came from.

Believe it or not, you can’t legislate your way to heaven any more than you can legislate anyone else to heaven or hell, though you can make their life hell here on earth.  Just ask those who lived through Stalin’s rule of the great socialist experiment.

OK, I’m rambling now but since I pay the rent here and the thought police haven’t fully taken over the internet yet, I’ll say what I damn well please.