Things for Thursday

Thursday, November 15, 2012
Seems a woman in Cleveland decided that she was just WAY TOO IMPORTANT to stop for a school bus that was unloading passengers. So she drove her vehicle onto the sidewalk and around the bus. The entire thing was caught on film, and when she went before the Judge, he decided this was the appropriate punishment:


I have about as much sympathy for her as I do for those shameful fucksticks who are able-bodied but still park in disabled parking spots, so I'm afraid I'm indulging in a little schadenfreude on this one. ::snort::

H/T my Hot Mom
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So I was minding my own business yesterday afternoon when the phone rang. It was some woman from a Salt Lake City area code who claimed to be "looking" for one of my neighbors, and then gave me a name I was unfamiliar with. When I claimed I'd never heard of her, the caller replied with, "So you do know ("missing" person's name) at (nearby house's address)?"

Yeah, right. Good luck with that strategy, slick.

I'm afraid I became a bit sharp with the caller at that point and made some snotty comments about the caller's inability to parse English and the probability of me helping strangers hound my neighbors (precisely 0%). And since they called me by my husband's last name and not my own, I suspect they got our number through a reverse look-up on our address.

I swear, people have NO SHAME.
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My trip to Montana was fairly productive from a doing-the-work-for-which-I'm-paid perspective, so go, me. I have to say though - Montanans have a serious obsession with taxidermy and decorating with dead animals. Everywhere I went, dead, glassy eyes followed me accusingly as I looked over my shoulder at their lifeless bodies. I understand that it's a matter of personal taste on an esthetic basis, but - ew.

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