37 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-19-15”

  4. This is one of those things you don’t know whether to laugh or cry or what to do. Yesterday I took BG with me when I went to the beach to show a condo. The owner is requiring that Guy or I be there when it is shown. On the way back she called and ordered chicken and dumplings from Cracker Barrel (I am just trying to get calories in her). I drove us home while she ate. We were talking about what all has happened to her recently. I pointed out to her that she has my uncanny ability to be doing something that dozens, hundreds, thousands of people have done but when we do it we get caught. Just like when the school wasn’t allowing jeggings and every girl in her class was wearing them but she was the one sent to the office and I was the one who had to take other pants to the school. I pointed out some other instances and told her she needed to realize that somehow she was “on the radar” and she would get caught.
    She said she had a confession to make. Really? What else could it be? She told me I was probably going to pull over and make her walk home? She really set the stage where I was even prepared to hear her tell me she had had an abortion. I feared the absolute worse….
    It seems that Tuesday was such a stressful day that she just had to have a cigarette, so she went to a friends house and got one. She was smoking it on the way back and flicked her cigarette butt out on the highway. Now how many times have you seen a smoker do that and thought “why are smokers the last people in the United States who can litter and nothing is said or gets done it???? How many times have you been angry over seeing it? It makes me grind my teeth. WELL…..a policeman pulled her over. Asked for her ID. He came back to the car and gave her a ticket for underage possession of tobacco products. Thankfully he didn’t give her the $500 ticket for littering.
    I just looked at her and said, “I rest my case”, She is on her own on the rest of this. She is going to have to take her lumps. I don’t know when she will learn but it is better she learn it sooner rather than later.

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  5. I was talking to Becky abut smoking once. I didn’t go through the habit, and cancer thing. I said, “Cigarettes give you bad breath and stain your teeth”.
    She has never smoked.
    What teenager cares if they get cancer at age 65?

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  6. Illinois is working on a law to make a special fine littering cigarette butts. They shouldn’t be considered as anything but litter. And recently around here the police by way of the media warned people not to throw cigarette butts out of cars because of the fire hazard.

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  7. Kim, you remind me of a friend of mine. She went through so much with her son. He complained that HE was always the one to get caught. She told him that was God watching over him. She and his father kept up the prayers. She also slept on a chair outside his bedroom to prevent his sneaking out. Prayer and practical steps work together well. He made it through this difficult time of his life.

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  8. Smoking was pretty pervasive in the culture in the 1950s and ’60s. I never even tried it. But young people still take it up (though its social unacceptability now does serve as a deterrent later on, i think).

    Did BG eat her dumplings? I worry about these girls who try to be as skinny-minnie as possible, it’s become such a huge pressure nowadays and just isn’t healthy. But eating disorders, I suspect, are also very common nowadays (and often hidden successfully, hard to overcome). 😦

    I’m off to a news conference at the LAPD station this morning, but thankfully it’s not until 10 a.m.

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  9. Good Morning. Flicking cigarette butts…yikes….not around these parts please….that is one of our biggest concerns in the forest. Unfortunately, many grass fires have been started around here because of it….do cars even have ashtrays anymore? I remember the day when every car had an electric lighter and ashtrays in the front and back seats….days are a changing 🙂

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  11. I don’t know if my mom was trying to innoculate us against smoking, or what. But if we had cigarette butts thrown into our front yard, our campsite, or whatever, she had us pick them up, but pick them up with a glove or something or wash our hands afterward because they’re so dirty. Whether that was her own sense of how gross they were, or trying to communicate that sense so we wouldn’t smoke, or both, I don’t know. But I mentioned that to my sister once, and she said she too got that same sense: “Ew, double ew. Gross.” Neither of us would have considered smoking. (I know that my oldest brother smoked for a while, and wasn’t caught for a long time, so it may have been after that that she used some aversion therapy on the rest of us. As far as I know, he’s the only one of the seven of us who touched the things.)

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  13. 19 to buy tobacco in Alabama. My father was in his 50’s and kept a bottle of Listerine in his glove box so that my grandparents wouldn’t know he smoked. I reminded her that he died from esophogeal cancer. I also remember her that every Pop and every one of his siblings have died of emphysemia. Her “Darling Uncle M” is still alive and so is the Methodist Minister.

    She is hard headed and is going to have to learn the hard way.
    She has X amount of court cost coming up
    She needs to fix her car
    She has yet another ticket to pay.
    She has tapped me out and it is going to be a very slim Christmas around here.

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  15. Recovery is not going so smoothly for Art. He thought he would be back to work today, but the leaking catheter bag along with pain has thoroughly changed his mind on that. There has been mention of a trip to the emergency room for unexpected pain in his leg. It’s been four hours since we called the doc’s office with no promised return back call. I was up late doing laundry. And you can imagine adding an inquisitive Miss Bosley to the mix. Well, it is an adventure I’m living.

    We, along with my brother, have been invited to Thanksgiving dinner. Somehow, I think it will be Art and me here with Miss B.

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  16. I wrote “an adventure in living,” but the phone changed it to, “an adventure I’m living.” That’s a Smartphone talking, and I am Art’s phone. So perceptive! LOL, not!

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  19. We are back. Everything seems to have gone fine with the steroid injection. Since Guy was out of the office and all the other managers were on a retreat today –kumbaya–I stopped by the office and picked up some of the things I had left. I still forgot a few things but oh well.

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  21. Jo, my mom used to tell a missionary joke. First year missionary, fly lands in his coffee, he throws out the coffee. Second year missionary, fly lands in his coffee, he gets a spoon and scoops out the fly, and then drinks the coffee. Third year missionary, fly lands in his coffee, he scoops out the fly and shakes it over his coffee, throws it away, and then drinks the coffee.

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  24. There have been Black Lives Matter protest in our state. I know a lot of people disgusted with the roadways being closed. I know one man who was quite shocked to realize the teacher, for who he was subbing, was out protesting. He was not happy since the word is that the man shot was beating his girlfriend and was trying to grab a gun from the police. He would not have agreed to sub, if he had known this was the reason.

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  32. Thanks, Guess Who. It is a major disruption for those who need to get to work or other places. They do not have the luxury of getting substitutes to do their jobs. To have extra tax-payer dollars paying for someone to picket, just adds insult to injury.

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