Oh, To Be Young!!

Today we were in line to check out at a store in the mall. The young sales associate asked the woman in front of us, "Are you Colby's Mom?" Before the woman could answer she went on to tell about how she knew him from working somewhere else and how they have been out "clubbing" together a few times.

 The woman confirmed that yes, she was Colby's Mom.

 

The sales associate said, "I thought so! I saw you two together once and teased him that his Mom looked so young that she really looked more like his sister!"

 

Of course you can imagine that this woman looked really happy with that statement!

 

And the then the sales associate said, "Yeah, but I was really just joking; just giving him a hard time."
 

Ouch..
 

Reminds me of the time a hair stylist told me that she loved my hair style. And then followed up with, "When I get old, maybe I'll be brave enough to try that hairstyle too."
 

Double ouch!

 

But here's the deal. I still took the hairstyle comment as a compliment and the woman in line at the store really did look too young to have a son that was old enough to go out "clubbing"!  So it's all good!

Keep on smiling! 

God Loves Drunks Too!

Okay, this made me laugh so I had to share it!

A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door.

The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.

 "Not a chance," says the husband, "it is 3:00 in the morning!"

He slams the door and returns to bed.

"Who was that?" asked his wife.

"Just some drunk guy asking for a push," he answers.

"Did you help him?" she asks.

"No, I did not, it is 3:00 in the morning and it is pouring rain out there!"

"Well, you have a short memory," says his wife. "Can't you remember about three months ago when we broke down, and those two guys helped us? I think you should help him, and you should be ashamed of yourself! God loves drunk people too."

The man does as he is told, gets dressed, and goes out into the pounding rain.

He calls out into the dark, "Hello, are you still there?"

"Yes," comes back the answer.

"Do you still need a push?" calls out the husband.

"Yes, please!" comes the reply from the dark.

"Where are you?" asks the husband.

"Over here on the swing set," replied the drunk.

 

Keep on smiling! 

The Hot Pot of the 80's

No, I don't mean marijuana....

I went to college in the 80's. Just typing that sounds so bizarre, so very retro.  But it's true. I went to college in the 80's.

One of the appliance staples in a dorm room back then was the "hot pot".  You know what it is. It is one of those appliances that looks a bit like an old coffee percolator but it heats up hot water.  Those things were great.  You could boil noodles in them for macaroni and cheese, boil water for hot cocoa, etc. 

I'm not really even sure if ramen noodles had been invented yet in the 80's.  Or maybe their distribution channels had not reached as far as Wisconsin. Because I have to believe, if ramen noodles existed in the 80's, I would have been eating them in my little dorm room at UW-Whitewater! But I wasn't. So obviously they hadn't been invented yet, right?

My daughter is finishing up her senior year of high school and will be heading off to college herself this fall. I am so excited for her. I am also trying to prepare myself for life without her (my favorite person in the whole wide world) being here in this house everyday! 

We've been working on the prep stuff since summer; picking things up here and there on clearance, working through the list.  We have already purchased sheets and comforters that will fit the Twin XL beds in the dorms and are discussing the need for a refrigerator and microwave.  Today as I was wandering through Wal-Mart, I came across the "hot pot" appliance.  Ahhh, it brought back memories.

One of the memories that still makes me laugh pretty hard is starting up the "hot pot" one night to make macaroni and cheese while I studied. For some reason I had set it up on my roommate's dresser. I remember hearing this strange noise and I look over and water was shooting out of the spout of the "hot pot" and making a perfect arc directly into her closet!! Luckily, with some quick foot action and the grace of God, the macaroni-laden water didn't get on anything in her closet. Note to self, do NOT overfill the "hot pot" or the boiling water turns into a geyser of hot water and half-cooked macaroni.

So I see this similar device in Wal-Mart and picked it up to look at it. A cordless kettle. That's interesting. If there is no cord, does it run on batteries? That doesn't seem quite right. I read down a little bit further and it says, "Convenient Cord Storage". What? If it's cordless, why on earth do you need convenient cord storage? So I chuckled to myself and I took a couple of photos (see one below), put the "hot pot" back on the shelf and moved on. 

If my offspring, does indeed believe that a "hot pot" is something she would like to have in her dorm room, (I hope so!) we will do some comparison shopping and find a dandy one, fitting of the year 2012.

College...... it's funny the things you remember about those years!!  Wal-Mart..... it's funny what they sell!

Keep on smiling!