August 24, 2011

• Xangans can eat at my table. Placenta will be served and we will be arguing about pro life

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  Just kidding, a little Xanga fun.

   No, I would like to talk about more serious matters.  I have noticed a few trends in my life and I am trying to decide what the trends are supposed to teach me.  I believe things that happen over and over in ones lives, happen for a reason, so help me out here.

  Trend 1) 99% of the time I choose the wrong line at the grocery store.  I am not kidding. It never fails.

   I examine the lines and try and be scientific.  Ok 10 items or less, that should be fast right?  

  Wrong, new checker, inexperienced, day two, knows nothing and has to keep calling over checker from the line next to her, which was going to be my second choice.

  So then I might look at how the checker is doing for a min.  Is she wizzing through things, not too much chit chat?  Ok I pick that one.  Oh, what a surprise, the first women has 3,000 coupons and needs to discuss her coupons and sales and how much she really gets off.  

  Lady two needs a price check, and her juice leaked all over the belt which has to be cleaned, she needs new juice but the only person available is already getting a price check.  They don't have anymore of the thing she needs checked so they have to call a manager over and guess.  I sigh meanly, but no one cares.  I move to another line, omg could he be any slower.  He scans the items like he is stoned ( which he probably is.) This also never fails, one or two people in front of me almost always have a problem.

  Trend two:  The travel cruse.  This started at a young age, with my family.  We had cat diarrea in our camper, a tornado when we were in a tent.  I slept in a bath tub and a car. Our camper broke putting it up and on and on.

  Adult travel curses have included planes being multiple hours delayed.  That wouldn't be so bad, except they always say " Folks flight 101 is about 10 min. delayed, we will be boarding in about 10 to 15 min"

   1 hour later " We apologize it looks like the plane wasn't cleaned, give us about 10 min and we will start boarding?.  

  Two hours later"  "We're sorry for those of you flying to Baltimore, it seems one of our flight attendants had a nervous breakdown, we should be able to start the boarding process in 10 min."

  30 min later " Anyone flying from Chicago to Baltimore on flight 101, it seems someone has planted a bomb in the plane, we need to get a new plane, this one should be here in about 3 hours, we appreciate your patience. "

  Once we all got free vouchers for tickets to anywhere the airline flew. Due to the multiple delays and the engine trouble and the snacks being stale etc...  The air line said, when I called to redeem them, the airport people shouldn't have done that.  Well THEY DID ! SO HAND OVER MY TRIP TO HAWWI. Two hours later got a voucher that basically said I could only fly June1st at 3:00 and back July 29th at midnight.

  I have also, had my breast fly out of my bra, flop onto my shirt, on horseback, in the jungles of Mexico with only, me, my friend, and a potential rape and murdering guide.  That trip also included having a bull charge at us making our horses rear up, having wild dogs bite our horses as we went through slums, and the three hour tour lasting well into the night ( six hours or more).

  Earlier on that trip my friend and I were thrown to the bottom of the ocean, nearly drowning, and making the ear infection I got day one of the trip, burn intensely.

  Hotels have lost my reservation, said they had no roll aways, although I was promised one, cancelled my reservation when I never cancelled  etc...  I have stayed in places that looked good online but needed to be condemned ( one actually was, and was being torn down the next week).

  I have had airlines lose my luggage, had my wallet stolen, been on a train with new born twin babies, in the "luxury suite" as big as my small bathroom. 

  Been on a bus that broke down for hours,and a host of other problems.

  Trend three: I am ALWAYS in a long term ( years ) battle with one utility company or another, usually involving, phone, internet and cable. Spending hours on the phone, with hundreds of people, never getting anywhere.  This is usually due to lack of service, billing mistakes, not understanding English and I'm talking about the people who are actually from America.

  WhAT IS THE LESSON HERE:  I need to break these cycles.  What does this say about me????

   

  Since @Seedsower was so nice to post some of my photos, I think I I'll do that after every blog, as sort of a signature. Getting a little braver on Xanga about posting them. So here goes, photos I took and edited. Nothing to do with the topic Just a way to share them.

   

   

  

   

  

   

   

   

  

  

  

   

   

  

  I call this one on Golden pond.  Clever huh?  Yes I know I am just quick with little things like that 

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