Are We a SITKOM Family?
If SINKs are single-income, no kids families, and DINKS are dual-income, no kids families, then does that make my family a SITKOM? (single income, two kids, one mom) It would explain a lot.
Things Mom Really Doesn’t Want to Hear
The first few came in my e-mail, but I’ve edited the list and added a few of my own to make it fit my life a little better. The things a single mom doesn’t want to hear are a little different from the things a married mom doesn’t want to hear. Sometimes. I swallowed the […]
Well, They’re Off
Took them to the airport at lunchtime. Bawled my head off for half an hour after they walked off into the terminal with their dad. Funny stories … Got them out of the car and got their luggage out. Helped the oldest on with his backpack and turned around to hand him his pull-case. When […]
Was It The Bride’s Gun, Or the Groom’s?
A wedding party in Serbia caused a two-seater sports plane to crash, seriously injuring the two men riding in the plane—neither of whom, incidentally, appears to have had a pilot’s license. How on earth did a wedding party cause an aircraft to crash? They were shooting their guns into the air and shot through the […]
Lawyer Uses USPS to Mail Snake to Enemy
An Arkansas lawyer and his son have been charged with “intent to kill or injure” another resident of their town after they used the USPS to send a three-foot copperhead to the man, whose wife opened the package and called police. Neither the wife nor the intended victim was bitten by the snake. Reuters reports […]
Elvis Is Alive and Well, and Driving a Cab in Seattle, Washington
And he’s in trouble for it. Apparently, there is a dress code for cabbies in Seattle. Who knew? The AP reports that this cabbie started dressing as Elvis three years ago, as a Hallowe’en stunt. People liked it so well, and his tip income increased so much, that he kept it up, even researching Elvis’s […]
Would You Pay $200 for ONE French Fry?
Well, someone just did! The Ebay auction for “the world’s longest French Fry?” started at $1 and ended at $202.50. Now there is an even longer fry up for auction, along with a “shortest fry,” a graded French Fry collection, and an “invisible French Fry” — no picture with that last one, of course. It […]
Duck Doesn’t Let Dart Disturb Dinner or Date
A mallard in Virginia, Minnesota, isn’t letting a blowgun dart in its head interfere with its life, and it refuses to let local veterinary experts catch it so that they can remove the dart. The dart is embedded in the duck’s cheek, just behind its bill. Yet the mallard continues its daily life, eating, swimming […]