Lucky

Yesterday was Monday. I worked in the office until a little after 1pm and then went to lunch before working out of the office in the afternoon. I thought I was lucky because I wanted to eat at Paradise Bakery and they are usually very busy. I don't like to wait in line for food. Monday was no exception but without the line. I lucked out and found a place to sit in the crowded dining room next to a couple of young women. I was close enough to hear their conversation and being the nosy bastard that I am I ate my lunch in silence, you know that is hard for me, and listened to their conversation. They were talking about their mothers day weekend and their plans for the summer. One womans side of the conversation went like this. Her husband didn't fire up the pool heater soon enough in the week and the pool was still too cold to swim in when they had their bbq on Saturday. So it was too hot outside. 97, and the pool was too cold. Mothers day was a real hard day for her as well because her mother hates his mother and so they had brunch with his mother and then dinner with hers. The regular baby sitter couldn't make it to watch the kids at dinner and so they hired a substitute baby sitter which her daughter didn't like so they just took the kids to mothers day dinner with her mother and it was a nightmare. The thing that was most upsetting for her is the fact that the nanny that they used last year can't work for them this summer because she has to take care of her sick father instead. She doesn't know what to do, when the kids are out of school for the summer. The husband wants her to keep them at home a couple days a week, but she isn't really up to that so she is looking frantically for a new nanny. They usually take a summer trip without the kids and she is really afraid that they will have to cancel if they can't find a new nanny. I sat there and realized just how lucky I was not to have her difficult life. A trip without the kids. How nice. I usually have to take my kids on trips, My three dogs, they are part of my family and frankly I like taking them with me. I can't imagine feeling the contempt for my dogs that she feels for her kids. She has two of them I think. You will all be proud of me that I didn't say anything to her. I wanted to slap her with a carp. I think she needs to be lucky enough to wake up some morning on the north coast of Japan so she can see how lucky she really is.

Disappointment in Others.

First, I had a great weekend. Second, people continually disappoint me. I fully realize that I let them disappoint me, but it still happens. Sometimes I still think I'm right. I watched someone I respect struggle this weekend, and it wasn't their fault. I watched uncountable ego's in action this weekend and that wasn't a disappointment because most of them acted exactly like I thought they would. I watched the owner of one of the clubs that I race with run the club this weekend pretty much like I believed he has all the time, as his own personal private playground with little or no regard for the members actually paying the bills. I hate cheaters, I always have, I have to believe that someday they will actually get caught. The Corvette club was fast this weekend, and Corvettes were very well represented. C4's,C5's and C6's 14 in all, Probably the best represented aside from the Porsche's.

The Ultimate Womens Expo.

I had the unfortunate priviledge of working in our companies booth on Sunday at the annual Phoenix Ultimate Womans Expo. Many of you have been patiently waiting for an update featuring just how good the people watching was. Lets say it was Ultimate just like the women. First of all this was not a cheap event. Admission was $10.00, and nearest parking downtown was $12.00. $22.00 before you even get in the door. Upon arrival I noticed that the line for entrance started early and by 10:00 a.m. when they finally opened the doors the scene reminded me of when the neighbor down the road had to milk his cows in the evening. They started lining up by the milking parlor door about an hour before milking commenced. The major difference is that upon the opening of the door, the cows were more orderly. This was my first experience with working at the Ultimate womans expo and I didn't know what to think. I did have some pre-concieved notions about what I expected and frankly I couldn't have been more wrong. I assumed that this was some kind of rah rah womens weekend. They had Ricki Lake, Susan Lucci, and Barbara Heaton as speakers and I thought is was going to be kind of like up with people but for women. I couldn't have been more mistaken. I thought is was going to be women all dressed up, listening to motivational speakers, and learning new make up techniques, getting their hair done, watching fashion shows. All of that was going on, except for the fact that nobody actually watched the fashion show. 200 chairs, 25 women, pretty much the same percentage for the motivational speakers. It turned out to be very much like a two day flea market. Most women were there to get something free. The would actually walk by the table and pick up the bic pens we had there for people to fill out an entry for the products we were giving away. Several and I mean a large percentage actually we so prepared they had actually printed labels with their name address and phone number on them that they could just peel and stick to the entry blanks. The thing that amazed me most was just how many women didn't take a bath before they came. They appeared to wake up, tie their hair up i some kind of knot and put on REALLY ugly clothes and go to the Ultimate Womens Expo. I was appalled. And when did they stop wearing undergarments? I have never seen so many bra less women, and women in poor fitting clothes that weren't wearing any panties in my life. And let me tell you after a while it was really just too much to take. Now I know and freely admit that most men are pigs, We like sex and sometimes some of us aren't too picky, but I am pretty sure that our arms aren't attached at our waists and we would prefer if our women's breasts weren't attached their either. The funniest thing to me was the almost 100% accuracy rate of the fact that when we tried to give a free subscription for our skin care magazine to someone walking by. The ones who refused where obviously the ones that needed to read about skin care and make up application the most. I swear some of them put on eye make up and then rubbed their eyes with their fists. One of the local nail salons was offering free pedicure's if you signed up for their e mail list. The number of women waiting in line was un-believable, frankly you couldn't have paid me to touch some of their feet. I can honestly say my mother never went out in public looking that way. Most of the women that I know would never go out in public looking like that.