HOW DUMB IS DUMB

A man at Lake County jail is taking out garbage after dinner. Says to himself, should I go back in or should I walk away. He left. A clerk at a convenience store noticed a man wearing a orange prison shirt standing outside of the store and called police. In checking with the jail it was determined that they were missing an inmate. By the time they got there he was gone. They canvassed local bars and his picture was identified at one. By that time he had changed clothes and went to the local Hooters bar where he was bragging about walking away from the jail. Hooters employees called police and he was arrested there. By the way he walked away from the jail on Sunday and was arrested on Thursday. How many days is that?

STORMS

Today I was looking thru the newpapers from the last few days which show pictures of the the destruction and flooding the storms from earlier in the week left. My sorrow and prayers go out to the people who were affected by this. Also a great deal of praise to the service departments in Dyer, Schererville and surrounding towns. It is not an easy task to clean up after Mother Nature gets out of control. My hat is off to all the volunteers also for their work.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

SHOPPING

Did you ever go shopping for something and really had your heart set on what you were going for. Yesterday I went to two stores. One was OfficeMax and the other PetCo. At OfficeMax I wanted to have a ink cartridge refilled. I stood at the counter while the clerk was helping another customer. Fifteen minutes went by and nobody asked if I needed help. It looked like, from my count, that there were only five people working at the store. A cashier, person at the cartridge refill, and I say three people walking around trying to look important while looking like they were in a daze. Needless to say I go tired of waiting so I left. The same thing at PetCo. I wanted to buy some fish but there was nobody in the department. I walked around looking at other things thinking I would go back to that dept. later. Twenty minutes later I did go back and still nobody to help. Yep, I left. Customer appreciation or assistance doesn't exist anymore I guess, just the bottom line and that means less people working at the store.

THE SCHOOL BUS

As a new parent (grandparent) watching my granddaughters go off to school is a terrifying thing. One, Angelica is from Texas and she is my responsibility. My other granddaughter Delaney also gets on the bus with her. Yesterday was their first day so with the school bus stopping at my corner (I live in the corner house) I felt more relaxed. I didn't let them take the school bus to school, just home. I felt better taking them myself on their first day. The school had only a half day yesterday so, according to the schedule, they were supposed to get out at 11:15 am which meant the school bus would drop them off about 11:45. WELL 11:45 came and went and then came 12:15 and no school bus. Gramps is getting worried. Did they get on the wrong bus or not even gotten on the bus. So with shaking fingers I called the school and was relieved to hear "the children are just now getting out". Relieved with that statement I waited and sure enough at 12:50 the school bus stopped at my corner and my granddaughters got off.

RAINY WEEKEND

With the weekends getting fewer and fewer at the camper you charish the ones that are left. This last one was beautiful. Temperatures in the 70's with a nice light breeze. We had a campfire in the afternoon and had dinner with my neighbors of brats, hamburgers and all the fixins. That night we went to the first annual Yogi Bear talent show. Had a good time except that it started raining about 9:00 saturday night and hasn't stopped yet. This is Monday. Saturday night about 11:45 the electric went out and didn't come back on until 1:30 in the afternoon, so we were limited as to what we could do. I was getting ready to empty my freezer and bring that stuff home when all of a sudden the electric came on. I was sure glad I didnt' have to do that. We left early and it was raining we got home and it was raining, went out for ice cream and it was raining, went to bed and it was raining got up this morning and it was raining it is now 10:30 and it is still raining. Nothing to do but watch TV or clean house. Happy Days.

CAR DEALERS

My daughter has been looking for a car to replace the one she has. On Saturday she went to a notable dealer in Merrillville, Indiana, found a car she liked, talked to the salesman and he took down all of her information and said he would call her. This didn't happen. She talked to him on Monday and he said bring your car in for an appraisal. She said she would be there on Wednesday. She called him before she went to see if he was there. He said come on in. There were two cars she was looking at. One a red and one black. She had her heart set on the red one but would take the black if things didn't work out. The salesman knew this. Upon arriving at the reputable dealership and seeing the salesman, she was told that they had sold the red one that morning and someone was looking at the black one as they spoke. Yep they sold the black one too. My question is why didn't he tell her it was sold when he called and why didn't he hold the car if he knew she was coming in. This reputable car dealer is not so reputable in my eyes anymore.

WEEKEND AT YOGI BEAR

With summers end closing in on us, I try and get to the camper as much as I can. This weekend was just like the rest of the week. HOT!!!!!. Can you imagine going to a camper, sitting on the deck and having a fan blowing on you? That's what my neighbor does. He says that you should be outside when camping and the fan creates a nice breeze.

The neighbor across the street had a high school graduation party for her son Scott. They have some nice trees at the back of their campsite and there was also a nice breeze back there so you can imagine where we were. Lots of good food, drink and conversation. Later we had a camp fire. Imagine having a camp fire when it's 97 degrees. That's part of camping, without the camp fire you might just as well stay home. We all sat back from the fire at least 10 feet because everyone said it was too hot to sit any closer. We couldn't even roast marshmallows. We still had a wonderful time.

OBEYING THE LAW

In our newspaper we have a section that is called Back Talk. This is where people can speak their mind and get things off of their chest about anything.

The other day someone wrote in to complain about people driving in the left doing just the speed limit. He thought that the person should have moved over to the right lane so he could pass. But the person in the left lane replied that he was obeying the law and should not have to move to the right lane so the other person could speed and break the law. I think he was wrong. Did he ever think that the person behind him trying to pass might have an emergency at home or he could be taking someone to the hospital.

Next time knucklehead, move over. The law does state the slower traffic use the right lane. Next time YOU should obey the law.

BAD MANNERS

Yesterday while I was getting gas a car pulled up on the other side of the pump. Two elderly men got out of the car, one went inside to use the restroom and the other was putting gas into the car. As the one man was walking toward the building where the restroom was the other yelled to him "hurry up I have to go too". As we were both filling our gas tanks I looked across and saw a stream coming from the mans shorts and forming a puddle on the ground. Since he was finished before me putting gas into his car, he walked into the food mart wet pants and all to pay the cashier. This must be what he does all the time because he didn't even attempt to hide the huge wet spot in front of his pants. And today while I was parked at a red light, a passenger from the car in front of me threw out a banana peel without giving it a second thought. I can see a younger person doing this but this was a elderly person. I wounder what the homes of both people I mentioned look like if they have proven themselves to be slobs.