The Funny, Stupid, Marble-Headed Thing I Did Yesterday

[Stellar Storm]

I really love this board. I can rant and rave about anything that happens to me and the marble-headed things I do and tell it to people I've never met before, thereby, getting it off my chest - and my family can go on living peacefully as if I'm normal.

Okay, this gas price thing is really gettin' to me (just had to throw that in - notta thing to do with the story). So anyway, I went to the grocery store and dropped my kids of at the high school for an evening play - all on an empty tank of gas. I'm tellin' ya - the needle was on or below the E the whole time. So I think in all my wisdom, "I'd really better stop and get some gas." With a twenty dollar bill, I raced into Diamond Shamrock and immediately got side-tracked by the king-sized Almond Joy and the new $10 scratch off lotto ticket. "I only need $5.00 worth of gas," I think to myself, "I mean, it was on E most of the time and I haven't treated myself to a lotto ticket in over 6 months. And even if I don't win, I'll get more for my money with this lotto ticket than in my gas tank." So I made my purchases and got on my merrily way. When I got home, I unloaded the groceries and cooked dinner before the kids called to be picked up. The phone rang and it is time to jump back in the car one last time for the day. As I'm driving out of the driveway, I notice that the needle is now way below E. "Humph!....I knew I'd get more for money from the lotto ticket!" Then...slowly but surely...as if suddenly my brain stem re-attached....I realize.......I never pumped the gas.

So this is what I did:

(The laughing was just me being delirious.)


Epilogue: I made it back to the gas station on fumes and prayers - I litterally rolled into the station, cashed in my lotto ticket (I won $15! Yepee! ) and my family is clueless and happy.

[Miss Mary]

Oh man, did I need a laugh today....please know I'm laughing WITH you, not at you!!! Because I ran my gas tank needle close to E last week too. We were going up a steep hill and of course it went below E. My daughter Laura was with me, she started getting all worried. I said don't worry, when the car levels out, it will go above E. It didn't! We had a doctor's appt. so we had to stop for that. Afterwards I ~pleaded~ with her to remind me to stop for gas. Nothing else, drive from medical building's parking lot to a BP one block away. As we sat thru the light, Laura I know was worried. If we run out of gas right here, I'll be so embarrassed.....we made it. I haven't run my gas tank that low in years.

Of course this has nothing at all to do with our poor memory skills now does it, StellarStorm? LOL Naw......he he

The problem is all those tempting things to distract us from what we need to do - buy gas, pick up specific grocery items on your list (that you always comes home without), I curse my 2 story home. Coming upstairs and wonder, now why did I come up here AGAIN.....

Laura's thinking of having a Halloween party and I told her the secret to a good one is to make it very casual. She's thinking of putting on the invite - throw together costumes. Just raid your parent's closet! From there she said - I know, I'll go as a nerdy mom! She knew which dorky pair of capri's of mine she'd wear, hiked up high above her waist with a tight belt (I do NOT wear them this way!), my Keds gym shoes, rumpled down white sox, no better yet, sox with sandals (again, I do not dress this way!), but the best one was - wearing two pairs of glasses, one on, on the tip of my nose and the other on top of my head, and then rummaging around saying - I can't find my glasses!

It's so much fun to get old isn't it? We said we'd never get old too......dang our Baby Boom generation ideas!!!!

Mary

[Stellar Storm]

Speaking of poor memory skills....when (not if) I get the... ummm...what's called?......the forgetful thingy......anyway, I'm gonna let my nouns go first. I've already decided....they'll be the first to be packed. Don't like using them anyway....I can never remember anyone's name.

My kids want a Halloween party, too. Yep, my closet is better than anything they have on the market today.

[weathermom]

Mary!! I wear 2 pair of glasses too. Only I wear one over the other!! My kids nearly died the first time they saw me!!

I got bifocals earlier this year, but they couldn't get them right, they kept going back to be done again, and finally I said enough. I needed them for the distance, especially driving at night and I didn't want to wait any longer.

I had tried contacts before that thinking that I would wear contacts for distance and put on reading glasses ( I have had glasses for reading since I was 12). They couldn't get contacts that fit right, not even custom made ones. I had purchased the reading glasses to go over them before we realized that none would work for me.

So....now when I need to read I put the reading glasses over the bifocals and look through the distance portion and can see to read perfectly. Just can't read in public.........


Hey!!! I just became a tropical storm!!!

[Miss Mary]

Loren - OMG, busting a gut here.....seriously. I would have howled too. I used to enjoy a good chuckle when I'd see older people wear their glasses on top of their forehead, or on their chin. Never actually over their eyes. Guess what, that's me! Laura says why not wear them all the time - well, they're cheapie drug store reading glasses. Necessary for reading, ANYTHING, forget that phone book, tiny buttons on the TV remote, etc. I constantly have to hear - you mean you can't read THIS? Anyway, my distance is okay, for now. I'm afraid to go in for a long overdue eye check. I'll end up with Rx glasses, with bifocals, I'm afraid!

Stellar......we'll just revert to 'hey you'!!! I have trouble with names ending the same way and especially if they're one syllable. I used to pride myself on remembering a casual acquaintance from church's name. Kim. She even said once, good memory. At Laura's Confirmation she caught me off guard, saying hello Mary....I replied with - hello Pam!

Pam, Kim, Swim....what the heck.....Sam I am....

Mary