Bits & Pieces, Odds & Ends Version6.0….
Pet peeves and other things that are the burr under the saddle of life…..
CONSERVATION CONUNDRUM
It seemed like it took years to get the kids to to flush the toilet each time they used the bathroom.. . I can’t count the numbers of times I found the toilets unflushed in the house… After what seemed like a dozen years of ranting—I finally got them to flush each time they used the facilities.
SUCCESS !
NOW comes the drought—and I’m still screaming at them.. This time—it’s to get them NOT to flush the toilet UNLESS it’s necessary. I can’t tell if it’s just habit that’s making them flush every time now—or that they’re at the age where they just want to be contrary.
In any case—my new age parenting friends say I’m probably setting up a severe sets of conflicts in their minds—and years from now—they’ll be sitting in a psychiatrists’ office trying work out the angst resulting from the FLUSH–NO-DON’T FLUSH messages they received as kids…
OH NO, YOU DIDN’T…
Here’s another one of those things that frosts my cupcakes…People citing the 1st Annual this or the 1st Annual that! It’s especially prevalent among my fellow broadcasters—many of whom OUGHT to know better !It can’t be annual UNTIL it’s happened more than once… the first time is the INAUGURAL !!
This is my 37th annual complaint about that particular mis-use of our language!
HEY, USE A KLEENEX, I DON’T WANNA CATCH YOUR FATNESS…
I always thought my middle-aged spread was my fault because I was eating too much and not exercising enough. Now—come to find out—I have no responsibility in this whatsoever. I have a DISEASE ! This study linked here cites research that indicates you can catch being fat!
Yep—the same virus that gives us pink-eye, diarrhea, and the common cold can make us uncommonly chubby they say..
So, if being fat is a disease—I’m ready to start treating it like one. I’ll begin by taking a sick day… “Hello Boss—I’m not coming in today. I’m felling a little fat.”
Of course—this fat virus creates a few new problems too.
How fat do you have to be to be considered sick? A pound overweight? Ten? And what if they come up with a vaccine? Do they not give you sick days if you come down with “fat-itis” after you’ve refused to get the anti-fat shot?
As the scientists say—this requires more research.
Let me get back to you after I’ve had a cup of coffee and a couple of slices of cake.
—Steve
Link here to the story Steve covered today on NBC-17
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