Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Chapter 7 and another ant sighting

Did you ever play freeze tag when you were a child? I was in the bathroom yesterday and there was a 'frozen' ant on the floor in front of me. Now, I suppose if he were standing on dirt he might have been camouflaged and I wouldn't have seen him, but he was standing on white tile. I guess he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer and thus had been chosen to be the look out. I just wanted you to all know that the war is still being waged.

And on another front, we had concert tickets last Friday, downtown, me and 'Mr. I don't need no stinkin' handicap parking permit.' He conceded on that one after 8 weeks. But, get this, he is all excited now that we can park in a handicap spot, so there we are roaming the streets searching out the elusive handicap spot. Yay!! We found one. It's only a mile or so away from the concert site. But we park there anyway, BECAUSE WE CAN!! I tried to tell him that I thought he was missing the point here.

Monday, September 5, 2011

grilling on the carpet

Traveling south for the Labor day weekend I must have been tired. Interesting ads kept popping up on the radio. The first one was for some carpet cleaning service. I can't remember the exact quote, but it was something like this: "After all your summertime grilling, you're going to want to get your carpet cleaned. You should call 1-800-why did I grill in the living room?" I was pondering that one and wondering how many in the listening audience actually had their grill in the living room, or on the carpet anywhere, when the next ad came on. It was for mud jacking your sidewalk. Now I'm not entirely clear on that concept to begin with but they started out by saying that "You don't want those unsightly large holes in your sidewalk." And I was thinking "No, I'd rather have sightly small ones in mine." Clearly I'm not the target audience on these ads, and perhaps I'm listening to the wrong radio station. I need a product that keeps ants out of my hummingbird feeder. But then again, maybe this is part of the all out frontal assault.