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I understand that Reagan was believed by many to be a great president, and many many people are saddened by his passing, but… WAS IT REALLY FUCKING NECESSARY TO CLOSE THE POST OFFICE ALL DAY TODAY?
I mean, the mail is something that I really REALLY look forward, probably a LITTLE too much. But I won’t be receiving this week’s People Magazine today, will I? Why, no. Because the postal workers have the day off, mourning the death of Ronald Reagan. SH’YEAH. They’re probably having cookouts and drinking beer, AND GETTING PAID FOR IT.
No fair, man. NO FAIR.
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People are so stupid. Newsflash there, right? I stopped at Burger King this afternoon because I wanted to try one of their Garden Shrimp salads (is it sad and wrong that I could have had anything at all for lunch – I don’t count calories on Friday – and all I wanted was a salad and sushi?). Now, for some reason at lunchtime (and possibly dinnertime, though I don’t know for sure) instead of the usual having you pull up to the speaker, placing your order, and then pulling up to the window to pay, they put a sign on the speaker that says “Pull forward to order taker.” You pull forward where a person is standing to take your order. They use their headset to relay your order to someone inside, who gives them the total. They write your total down on a piece of paper and hand it to you, you drive four feet to the next person who’s standing there, give them the paper and your money, and they make change. And then FINALLY you pull up to the window and wait and wait and wait for your food.
Convoluted and fucked-up, right? Well, it gets even more fucked-up when you add a dumbass to the mix who pulls up to the speaker and just sits there. Like the person in front of me did, pulled up there and just sat and sat and sat. At first I thought he was staring at the menu to figure out what he wanted, but after a minute or so he started looking around, and then staring at the speaker (the speaker WITH THE SIGN TELLING YOU TO PULL FORWARD) and waited. When it had been two or three minutes, I finally said “Oh, fuck THIS!” and put the car in reverse, backed up a little and went to pull around him.
Which is when HE said “Oh, fuck THIS!”, and decided to pull forward to see what the hell was going on. Which made it impossible to get in front of him or behind him, and I had to pull around the building to the end of the drive-thru line, which had grown by about four vehicles.
And the person next in line at the drive-up, who had been behind me? Pulled up to the speaker… and sat there.
Like I said, people are idiots. Me included, because the Garden Shrimp salad was not all that fabulous. In fact, I’d say that I don’t care for the sauce the shrimp was grilled in, because I’m burping it up. Bleh.
And they didn’t have the kind of sushi I like (California Roll), and I got a different kind (the name escapes me), and I didn’t really care for it.
Wah!
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Because I just got rid of a bunch of magnets and there was white space on my refrigerator, I had to buy a couple more…
I particularly like the second one. You can get your own (this place has the BEST selection of magnets EVER) at
Sticker Giant.
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Pet store kitty pics from Monday are
here.
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The Bean, he is a yawn-y Bean. And I’ve found that the trick to getting pictures of him yawning is to find him sleeping and wake him up. He’ll yawn ’til the cows come home!
(This is at the tail end of a yawn. It absolutely cracks me up. I think it’s my new favorite. You can view the full-size version
here.)
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OMG – the Beany Yawn-a-thon cracked me up! 😉
I can’t believe it’s been a *year* since Fancypants went missing. I have always held out hope that he’d show up again- after our neighbor kitty reappeared after two months.
I miss him 🙁
Robyn I should really thank you (or not depending on how you look at it) for directing me to Sticker Giant last week. Now I will never stop buying magnets for my fridge! I bought the Bessie milked herself plus “The truth behind whipped cream” too freakin’ cute..and now you show us the Mother ones..
Jesus is coming soon! Quick..look busy..
(did ya see that one?)
Heh.
The PO was closed? That’s just weird. In the UK it (funeral) was on the main channel and they took a soap opera off that was bad enough.
My postal inspector husband would like me to point out that he neither cooked out nor drank beer today. We did however ditch the small child at the inlaws and go see a movie and have dinner and act like crazy young kids last night and then visited the zoo and swam today.
But inside, he was crying for regean, really he was.
He did tell me his office was all excited yesterday about the day off and that they unlike the rest of the federal gov’t doesn’t get off for any other “declared” national holiday like Xmas eve…so they have to wait for a president to die.
..sigh…while everyone is having a moment of silence today for the departed President Reagan, I will be having a moment of silence for poor ole Mr. Fancypants….hopefully, he is swishing around somewhere, being fancy.
He was my favorite (well, after Tubby, that is) and he and Tubby are greatly missed.
Can you imagine what it would be like at your place if Mr. Fancypants and the Bean were there together??? Watch out! I can see the fur flying!!
THANK YOU! I just arrived home from making a special trek to get important shit to the PO, and it was FUCKING CLOSED! Grrr. I’m bitching the whole time as I drive home, go into the house, hook up the laptop, and then I log onto bitchypoo and laugh out loud when I read Robin’s journal. My sentiments exactly…
I love a yawning Bean!
GOD I love the yawny cats! The next-to-last Bean picture had me laughing so hard my husband thought I was crying. He looks like he’s saying “wwwwwWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!”…which is of course what I say every time my cats yawn! Thanks, Robyn – a laugh just when I needed one. 🙂
Robyn,
I sent you an e-mail with an extremely extremely sad song…I attached it so ya wouldnt have to find it. but just if the e-mail didnt go through it is call Heaven 911 Remix by DJ Sammy.
It is so SAD!! Im a blubbering fool now…
I drove 1 hour away from home to go to US post office only to be informed by US customs that the post office was closed! It makes you wish cnn would have had it running along the bottom of the screen that the post would be shutdown! 2 hour drive roundtrip for nothing. Robyn, you are not alone in your annoyance!
Around here we had no mail delivery and the post offices were closed. The Federal, State, and Local government offices were all closed. There was no trash pickup. Plus no one seemed to understand why! Stupid people indeed.
Go ahead and flame me, but if Californians have to recognize Cesar Chavez day (all State offices closed) then I think we can damn well honor a dead President.
And, no, I didn’t vote for Reagan. In fact, I RAN out on my 18th birthday to register to vote just so I could support Mondale (okay, you can make fun of me for that too). But I do respect the rank of President, even if I don’t agree with the man.
Ha, I love that sequence of yawn pics. 😀
Hey Robyn! Remember that letter you wrote to Playboy about their asinine comment about size 16 women? I just got this months issue (I too enjoy the articles, really) and they printed your letter! If you are indeed R.A. from Madison, Alabama 🙂 Too cool.
Those pics made me yawwwwnnnn….
Song of Susannah. Excellent. Read the whole thing in a single weekend. I liked it better than Wolves of the Calla; I kinda had to force myself to slog through the middle of that one, but then it picked up mightily in the last third!