Parking = Pain In My...

Do you ever feel like the parking structure of a facility, a parking lot or garage per say, is setting you up for tragic failure? Parking lots and garages at busy and crowded facilities are horrible. I am surprised that there are not people killed daily at malls and grocery stores world wide after getting backed over by an SUV.



Parking lots and garages at busy places should have wide spaces, illuminated signs guiding traffic, and cones to block areas where vehicles should not enter. These cones should be large enough to be seen by the driver of the average size sedan when they look behind them when they are backing out of their parking space. This is what should be in a parking lot or garage.



Instead of using these guidelines, establishments would rather pack in as many parking spaces into a parking lot as they can, plaster a sign up that says their store isn't liable for any damages caused to your vehicle while you park it in the parking lot that they own, and hope for the best. They don't use any signs to guide traffic and if they do have cones, they are about a foot tall so you can't see them.


This brings me to what occurred today. I was backing out of the garage parking spot at the mall I could hear something knocking underneath my car. I had turned and looked several times before I backed out. I saw nothing. I stopped and looked around and saw nothing. When I was finally able to maneuver my way out of what felt like the most confined space I had ever been in, in my entire life, I looked back into my rear view mirror to notice this minature cone that was just placed in my pathway and that was what was under my car. I got out of my car and checked for scratches on the bumper and there weren't any. This was a good thing for those who were working the customer care kiosk today at the mall.



I was slightly angry about this experience. I wanted to take that cone and throw it at security on the way out. I should have. From now on I am just going to park sideways and take up two or three spots so I can back out easily and avoid any dwarf cones that may scratch my car. Of course then my car will most likely get keyed by some one who's mission in life is to rid the world of those who park outside of the lines. I could pay someone to guard my crooked car while I am in the mall... Whatever.

Don't Tap The Keg Just Yet

It happened. Anheuser-Bush sold out to InBev for $49.91 BILLION. Americans were the makers of the best beer in the world and now it's the Belgians. Doesn't it make you proud to be an American when bits and pieces of America's heritage are being auctioned off to the highest bidder? The Chrysler Building was sold last week to a man named, Abu Dhabi... Abu Dhabi? After this big sale I begin to wonder what will be next. I also wonder what InBev is going to do to the beer. Will they leave it the same or will our American beer begin to have a Belgian after taste?



Maybe I am so concerned because, growing up in Missouri, I spent countless afternoons at Grant's Farm with my family or at Bush Stadium watching a Cardinals game. I would also like to include the hundreds of high school and college party memories that can be attributed to thousands of Bud Lights. In Missouri, A-B products are all around you. Nevertheless, I suppose I am not too surprised at this sale because EVERYTHING is for sale in the USA.

It's amazing what people will do to make a quick buck. It wasn't like the owners of A-B weren't already billionaires. It seems they just weren't big enough billionaires. I just hope that thousands of America's blue collar workers don't lose their jobs because of this whole "deal." I also hope that eventually America isn't 100% foreign owned.

Bush: We'll Be Sad To See You Go...

Bush has done so much for this country. In his eight years as leader we have endured terrorism with questionable motives, a war that still has no real end in sight, and an economic recession attributed to the highest gas prices ever seen and the fact that America is still funding this same war that is not ending, these are just a few examples.



But Bush comforts us with his wise thoughts and eloquent phrases. I would like to share a few that I have heard over time and that have really touched my heart.

"I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here." -at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

You're funny, George.

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

I think their connected...

"Oh, no, we're not going to have any casualties." --discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson

No casualties? Ok.

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

Oh George...

"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

Huh?

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

Well, thank you for finding ways to continually hurt us Bushy. We appreciate it!

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Guitar Hero Is My Hero

My son's father and I are not together any more. (3 years and running) It is way too long and dramatic story to tell but the long and short of it is: He cheated. I forgave. He became psychotically controlling due to his resulting insecurities. We fought. I left. The end.

So he does these things where he tries to use my son's emotions/actions to make me feel bad for us not being together as a "family." He still, after 3 years, doesn't believe that it's over for good. My son goes to his father's house on the weekends. Well, today my kiddo didn't want to come back to mommy's house. He wanted to stay with daddy. Well, my bright ex automatically contributed my child's wanting to stay with him to some type of psychological want for his parents to be back together. Ummm... no.... a BIG NO, in fact. When I asked my son, tonight, why he wanted to stay at daddy's he said, "Because daddy has Guitar Hero."



Well, I guess if I buy my son Guitar Hero he will want to stay with me again, right? I couldn't help but let out a little chuckle. My son's father was so set on the idea that my son's wanting to say at his house had "deeper meaning" and he kept repeating how "sorry" he felt for our son. That is so laughable. Don't get me wrong... I do feel sorry that life couldn't have been perfecto and worked out wonderfully for all of us but it didn't happen. I moved on.

I think I am going to go and get the kid Guitar Hero, though, just so we don't have this incident occur again. I mean, we don't want to have to book the poor thing an appointment with the shrink when all he needs is a little video game therapy, right?

I guess if my son's father had his way we would be back together, "for our son", fight all the time, hate each other, despise life... eventually have to send our son to a shrink from all of the chaos he would have to endure... OH WAIT... that makes perfect sense. Not so much.

I think I will stick with the video game and call it a day.