Who'd a thunk?

Well, it was an ordinary Saturday (or so I thought), and lo and behold you can't imagine the crazy things I saw today. Well, of course it seems anytime Karen and I are together/near each other something totally crazy happens (which lends me to being a little hesitant about moving in together). We go to a local gas station to fill up her car and in the 10 or so minutes we are there we had several interesting experiences.

#1 was that upon entering the gas station to pay (it's cash only so u have to take it inside before pumping), I see an ATM. Not so out of the ordinary for a cash only gas station, but the 2 stickers that were on it are what caught my eye. The first said 'ATM has no cash after dark'........ Can this be for real (I think not)? Does someone come in everyday at dusk and take all the $ out and put it back at dawn? And for real, daytime or nighttime, if you can ONLY pay with cash, why does the machine care if the sun is up? Not to mention the ATM isn't owned by the store so they have no control over it. I'll let that one go - maybe its just to deter folks from taking out large sums of cash at night so they don't ask to get robbed.....Who knows. Now onto the second sticker, well it said 'ATM has a GPS locator' - and this literally made me LOL. R u kidding me? First of all, those things probably weigh 200-300 pounds, or somewhere near that, and second of all even if u are able to 'steal' it, u can never get into them! So this ATM company has the $ to put GPS in its machines, but we can't pay our public school teachers any more money for the HARD work they do? Absolutely absurd....And while I'm on that topic, why the hell don't school buses have seat belts, but airplanes do? U get in a plane accident and you're pretty much done, a bus u have a much better chance of survival, maybe one day in my spare time I can try and take this up with some form of government, but that's not right now.

At this point, I'm the 3rd person in line and have been in that line for a few minutes (as u can see I was looking around cause I was bored).....And this older man is at the front of the line. Counting out pennies, NOT for gas, but for pieces of candy! He would get 2 or 3 and recount his pennies then get 2 or 3 more.......After about 3 rounds of this, those of us in the line are shaking our heads and when he finally turns to leave the guy in front of me chuckles. I can only look away cause I really was like was that for real. To top it all off - how about he got into a really NICE car?? Pennies for candy, and u drive a nice car - something is surely wrong with that picture!

Finally I head outside and as Karen and I are talking while she is pumping the gas, all of a sudden we hear this loud radio but we can't figure out where its coming from. I truly felt like we were back in High Point on Main Street at about 830 pm - when everyone was out struttin their cars. We then realize its coming from a MOTORCYCLE! The bike really had 'speaker slits' built into it right around where the feet rest - and it was so loud I was in shock. To be honest until I saw the slits, I thought he was ghetto fabulous and had a boom box or something tied onto the bike! Now, I can understand wanting a nice bike (and this appeared quite nice), but what's the point of a radio on a motorcycle when u can't hear it at 80 MPH anyway?? O and just so u know, when I went back into get the change from Karen's 20, this guy was in front of me and got a whole 6 bucks worth of gas - no comment.

We went to a corn maze out in the boonies and it was quite fun. Although it was a little muddy, but not as bad as it could have been! In any case, Stephanie, Karen and I went back into the maze to find all the 'posts' while Nickee, Kristine and Justice rested their legs. As we are literally heading out the long portion to the end we hear all this racket in the tall corn stalks (its at this point when we can all hear 'Jeepers Creepers where'd you get those eyes' and have visions of 'Children of the Corn' in our heads)..... All of a sudden this dumb a** kid, I mean teenager, actually scratch that I mean KID - comes flying through the husks and just about ran into us. Well this little punk was out to scare someone, but it wasn't us - it was his friends who were about 25 feet behind us. Needless to say none of us were terribly happy, and I felt my BP go through the SKY when it happened! This might be the only time in my life where I have wished that I knew some sort of TAE KWON DO or Jujitsu (sp?) or something along those lines, cause it sure would have been nice to have laid that boy out right there in the middle of the corn field. What if I were a little kid or an older person with a truly serious heart condition?? It's sad that it bothered me this much, but I guess I'm getting older and I think about more health 'what ifs' cause of my nursing training. In any case, he's lucky I wasn't prepared cause don't think for one second I would have hesitated. That is the perfect environment for some psycho stalker/raper/whatever to attack women. I know that's a bit pessimistic, but its the truth.

I've rambled on enough for the night, but if u want a good laugh - go to the Applebees in Germantown and hope you get the waiter who is a cross between an umpa loompa and the alien with the big head and large body in MIB - including the voice. This guy had Trisha, Karen and I in hysterics last night, and he wasn't even waiting on us (it was the shear sound of him near us)! But if you hear his voice, I am certain it will make u laugh your butt off!!