It's a lonely job up here you gize. On this pedestal of advice that you all have put me. (I know that is an incomplete sentence. I wanted it that way. It adds drama.) It's ok to admit it. I know you have. I'm smart about that stuff. And if you are smart you will listen to me. Cuz I give it good. Advice. <--Again with the drama.
Good advice #1: Blue tooth blunder
" Hey Daryl, can you hear me? This is Ron. I am in idiot!"
Tired of looking like an idiot when you are walking around with your silly Bluetooth ear piece in your ear? Well, have I got some good, nay, Great advice for you. Take it out! You look like it when you walk around the store with it in your ear when it is clear that you are not talking to anyone.
It's 2008, we ALL have cell phones. You don't look cool. You look like silly.
Look, I don't mean to come down hard on you like this...really, I don't. But I would not be doing my job of offering great advice if I didn't tell you that it's not cool to wear a Bluetooth ear piece when you are not using it. I understand that it is a pretty helpful tool...when someone is on the other line. But when the line is dead, it turns you into a moron.
Even if you are talking to someone, and you're not driving or doing something that leaves your hands too occupied to hold anything, use your phone. You look crazy talking to your self as you walk up and down the isles of your local super market. Just hold your little, light weight phone in your hands so the rest of us know you are not talking to us when you pass and say something like: "Yeah, I'd keep walking too if my back side was that big."
Once you get over you Bluetooth ear mess, we can move on to better things that make you look cool. Like, for guys "Do I tuck it in, or let it all hang out: Shirts, and the standard of tucking."
Good advice #2: Grocery cart guffaws
After you've made it through the whole grocery store with your children without managing to break anything, or knock over that large display of canned green beans, then managed to get the kids to the car without buying all the candy in the checkout, and still are able to unload the kids and the groceries into the car without anyone getting hurt-------it is perfectly acceptable to leave your grocery cart in the little "four corners" of the parking spaces instead of walk a 1/4 mile across the parking lot to put it in the "cart parking". Let's be realistic. The grocery store PAYS George, the teenage boy, to walk around the parking lot and round all of them up for you. It's his source of income for the weekend when he's finally gonna ask that girl out and will have the cash to take her to see Madagascar 2 and baskin robbins. You would be denying George of his date possibilities if you were to put away your cart properly. He would be out of a job.
K, it's up to you my young Padowan learners. Hit me.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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22 comments:
I have been in the parking lot with George dutifully wrangling the carts, and he gives me a dirty look for my four corners cart.
My question-is it cool if I just ignore all of my resposibilities for a day? Just a day, but ignoring it all? The breakfast, the getting the kids off to school, the empty fridge, and most importantly-the taxes even though I have an appointment to get them done and I need to be totally finished with them or I might miss out on deductions?
I can't tell you how much guilt you have taken off of my shoulders by telling me about George. I will never feel bad again about leaving my cart willy nilly anywhere I like it.
I wondered how much more good advice you had up your sleeve. You've been doing this for quite a while now. But you did not disappoint.
I totally agree about the blue tooth thing. I've thought those same old things meself.
So my question is:
I'm about to go VT and I just have rarely ever been able to get into those VT lessons they publish in the Ensign. What am I to do? I am getting tired of trying to act like I am into it when the lesson seemed so blah to me.
I know, go ahead and think of me as a heathen. I pretty much am.
I've always thought the bluetooth thingies made people look the Borg.
I don't have a bluetooth. If someone calls when I'm driving, they just have to wait until I stop driving. Rude, I know. I'm a rebel.
I left out look "LIKE" the Borg. Sad thing is, I actually read through it before I hit the POST button.
1. Amen to the blue tooth. Did you know there is an application on the iPhone called "fake a call" or something like that. I'm not sure exactly what it does, but apparently it calls you, then you can fake like you got an important call and get out of whatever situation. The screen on your phone even looks like you are on a call. Not that I've tried it or anything...
2. Thanks for the confirmation on grocery card abandonment propriety. I feel a little less guilty now.
3. My question: This morning while watching another persons little boy, he barfed on me. Nasty, right?
Well, my friend (non member)caught wind that I was having a bad day and showed up at my door with Starbucks. She said it was a mint hotchocolate. Yum, right? Well, when she left and I took a taste it was SO NOT hot chocolate. Do I thank her for the hot chocolate or tell her it was coffee. What if she was playing some sort of game with me? What if she was testing me?
Katie--It is toadally cool. Especially the taxes. I mean, aren't those due in April or something obscenely far away like that?
MM--Your welcome. And thank you. About the VT-ing. We JUST talked about this on Sunday. It doesn't have to go by "the book" so to speak. I'd dare say you should bring Twilight instead and use the analogies in there applicable to gospel principles.
Shel--I heart that you read it through. Mispelings are my faivorite tho.
Emily--1. Yes I knew about that app. How sweet is THAT?! 2. De nada. 3. Call your friend up and say all sarcastic like, "this was NOT hot chocolate. Doyee!" and then thank her anyway for the thought. Sarcasm always wins people over. ::snicker::
Dear AskMemzy:
How do I fill the empty void in my life now that Burn-Z is on his mish?
In other words... what do I blog about now?
Bluetooth=annoying. There is this guy who walks his dogs at the butt crack of dawn and super late at night and is always wearing his bluetooth and i always wonder how important he must be that he has to wear it at crazy hours.
I'm such a rule follower, I can't bare to leave a cart just sitting there I HAVE to put it away...I'm gonna feel about bout George and his date money but I just can't do it.
DearMemzy,
What should I blog about??? I know my readers have had enough of me talking about how much I love snow.
Thanks,
Nolongersnowedin
Perfect advice! Thanks.
When we lived in Calgary you had to pay to use the shopping cart, then when you put it back you got your money back. For some reason, I could never give up that quarter. It was a matter of principal. It is a hard habit to break, but I am going to work on it....for George's sake.
And I was totally going to go get a Blue Tooth to make up for the fact of me not having an iPhone, so thanks for saving me from that horrific mistake! But now what am I supposed to do to make myself feel and look important?
Sadly they are due by the 21 of January for businesses. You know, we have to have those w2s out to our employees so they can hand their taxes in by April. But it is still ok, right?
Ugh! So not in the mood for them!
Our cart boy's name is Geoff and from the looks of his acne and unkemptedness I doubt he dates much buuuuut he prolly needs the money for the lastest release of WarCraft or something.
Also, blueteeth (is that plural for bluetooth?) are like fanny packs, you gize. Totally convenient but they make you look like a major doof.
Question: Is it normal to feel like you've spent the day with someone when really you've just been texting them all day? I've had that sensation a few times in the past week or so. I feel like I'm lying to my brain.
TrueDattin'InDenver
TrueDayin--When you are living parallel lives what more can your brain think? It is fine, dare I say, healthy to "pretend" such things. Imaginary worlds are fine for kids whycome we can't have any either? PS. It is coooold in Denvah today and that car registration line was loooong.
I savored every last word of this advice. At the park. On my iPhone.
First, 90% of the time, I put the cart away. I don't break rules.
So here's my question, I don't have a bluetooth, but is it ok, cool even, to duct tape my iPhone to the side of my face? It's an iPhone afterall.
Remember when we were blow drying our hurr at the same time??
That was awesome.
Dear Memzy,
If both of my younger angels are sleeping and their sister is supposed to be picked up from school, do I wake them or drive the 25 seconds from my garage to the front of the school and commit a mistameaner (I know you heart mis-spells)?
Lazy Mom that Loves Quiet Time
P.S. A VT conversation that included Twilight actually got me into a less-active sister's home. I dare people to deny its inspired truthfulness! :D
Jespy--It's an iphone. You get to do whatever you want with it and are still cool. FACT.
Landee--member when we were both just finished the gym and were getting in the shower? RAD.
Lazy Mom-- You are not lazy, your are practical/surviving. How can you POSSIBLY wake up sleeping children for 50 seconds? Nay I say. NAY.
This thing between Landee and Memzy is getting steamy you gize.... like steam from a shower that they were both getting into at the same time.
aren't you gize glad you have a male blogger around to keep it real
Memz-How does Markie23 use italics in the comments? I need to know <--need needs to be in italics!
Katie--I'll get back to you on that one. After I go clean the toilets and pack the last box of xmas deco away.
My TIT assistant (Landeelu) has just informed me that I missed answering many peeps questions.
My aplogies. My cleaning out of the toy room today really put me off my schedge.
Markie-- Fill the void with an iphone. Fer super duh.
Cristin/Nolongersnowedin-- You should blog about your food staples that you and your fam relied on whilst being snowed in. I wanna know if it was ONLY red vines and diet coke or if there was frozen pizza in their somewhere.
Hotpants--To make yourself look important strap on a fanny pack, a multi-colored visor and some high top shoes and go peruse the local mall. You will be arrested for general pervyness and be a local celebrity in no time.
Katie--Yes it is still OK. Just tell the feds Memzy said so.
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