Well now your screwed. M Rating, no very pc article

I think there is a tendency for us to believe sterotypes: regardless where they come from. We may think on which race is better at math, one at sports and so on, the Dutch continue to be a mystery. I am the 1st to raise a protest at a racist joke or a gender biasised comment.

So today we are at the local Co-op, pretty 'PC' to start, don't you think? I am walking past the fresh soup aisle, it is located next to the wine, you do the math. This voice comes out of nowhere "Hey give me a sample cup." I look about and here is a gentleman in an electric wheel chair deal. He points out the cup he wants, the bowl I reached for was not the free stuff. Clearly my ability to walk makes me dumber than most. I hand him the sample cup, not good enough. "Fill it up with soup" he snaps. I do as requested and hand him the soup, "You forgot the spoon." He is clearly annoyed with my lack of insight to his needs as an ADA poster child.

Well, we sort out the needs of my new walking challenged friend and my wife and I go to have our whole wheat sandwich in the dining area. A few moments later my new friend rams his battery powered into our table and says "Hey, are you reading my newspaper, I left it hear and I know people steal newspapers."

I assure him it is not his, since it was in a very high place where he could not have left it.

He moves on and extracts a confession from another diner that perhaps he stole the paper.

It reminded me of a really bad joke I had heard years before.

Guy is fishing on a pier and a woman rolls up to him in a wheelchair. She stares at him and he feels he should engage her in conversation. After a bit, she confesses she has never been hugged, so being a good guy he hugs her. A bit later she says no one has ever held her hand and stroked her face. Of course he does the right thing. As he gets ready to leave she says "no man as ever kissed me!" Reluctantly, he gives her a quick kiss and attempts to move on. Finally, she grabs his hand and says "no one has ever screwed me"

At this point, he pushes her off the pier and says,"well now your screwed."

Just being in a chair doesn't remove your ability to be a prick.

ahem

Talk about a smoke screen

Next weekend it will be a year since I quit smoking, it is also the date of my time of being pretty sick and yes they are tied together. I had been dwelling on the whole sick thing here for a bit till yesterday. On Tuesday I had lunch with a good friend and he pointed out that moving on was the best option. On Wed I discovered a guy I knew from my former work had passed away. He died of cancer less then a year after retiring. Yesterday I recieved an email from a friend in LA who just retired last year as well.He has mellanoma, it has progressed to his lungs and tumors in his brain. I am done whining now.

Now about not writing. It seems when I quit smoking, I also quit writing. Well at least to any great measure. The whole ritual about writing for me is the room, my office at home, a cup of something...in the AM coffee, at night OJ and something and of course a cigarette. I didn't really need to be smoking it; in truth most cigs just burnt to the filter in one of the many ashtrays on my desk, it just had to be there. In testimony to the amount of writing I once did, my office is the only room left that I can still smell a trace of smoke.

So now I move on as a non-smoking writer.

RIP Laverne and God's speed in your recovery Jim.

OMG

It has been forever since i have written, lets end that shall we. I promise to write something new everyday. Probaly going to suck for a bit so be patient.
Cheers