1:19 a.m. - 2005-10-13
returning home
Thursday, October 13, 2005
My husband and I got home from our vacation about 3 PM today. We were sure glad to get home, get unpacked and relax. Being on a vacation is great but after about a week of living out of a suitcase and carrying luggage in and out of motels, unpacking toiletries and repacking and hoping for a decent shower and enough pillows for two people....it is great to be home.
This vacation had a couple of unusual aspects to it. It is the first time we ever walked out of a restaurant before being waited on...and that is the reason we walked out. We were seated and waited over 20 minutes while waiters were yelling at each other just next to our booth...but no one ever came to our table.
We also had very poor service last night. First we stopped at a well known motel chain, in fact we have a priority card with the franchise. The motel attendant looks less than thrilled when we walked in and told us they were booked. He offered nothing to help except to suggest we backtrack 25 miles to another of the chain. Then the restaurant we choose (another franchise) had a waiter and waitress who argued about which one of them HAD to wait on us. The waitress was a complete flake and it took 30 minutes to get our food. Then 15 minutes later, she wanted to know if we wanted cups and cartons to take our food home. No we just wanted to eat it.!!!
We noticed customer service was especially bad in our own home state!!
The best part, though, was seeing a BRAUM's ice cream and restaurant with the marquee as follows:
BRAUM'S RESTAURANT - We take food stamps.
Now, I am very glad that our country has food stamps for those who need
assistance and I don't begrudge any one who takes the food stamps but...
I have a real problem if they are eating at Braum's (where I don't even go because of the prices). The same goes for the grocery store. I see people using food stamps to buy steaks, roasts and other higher priced food and then use their own money to buy beer, alcohol, cigarettes, etc. If you need food stamps, you should be able to give up some of the bad habits.
Ok, here are some jokes to make you smile...
WHY GOD CREATED CHILDREN
(AND IN THE PROCESS GRANDCHILDREN)
To those of us who have children in our lives, whether they are our own,
grandchildren, nieces, nephews,
or students...
here is something to make you chuckle.
Whenever your children are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His own children.
After creating heaven and earth,
God created Adam and Eve.
And the first thing he said was
"DON'T!"
"Don't what?" Adam replied.
"Don't eat the forbidden fruit."
God said.
"Forbidden fruit? We have forbidden fruit? Hey Eve..we have forbidden fruit!"
"No Way!"
"Yes way!"
"Do NOT eat the fruit! " said God.
"Why?"
"Because I am your Father and I said so! " God replied, wondering why He hadn't stopped creation after making the elephants.
A few minutes later, God saw His children having an apple break
and He was ticked!
"Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit? " God asked.
"Uh huh," Adam replied.
"Then why did you? " said the Father.
"I don't know," said Eve.
"She started it! " Adam said.
"Did not! "
"Did too! "
"DID NOT! "
Having had it with the two of them,
God's punishment was that Adam and Eve
should have children of their own.
Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.
BUT THERE IS REASSURANCE IN THE STORY!
If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven't taken it, don't be hard on yourself.
If God had trouble raising children,
what make s you think it would be
a piece of cake for you?
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!
1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
2. Grandchildren are God's reward
for not killing your own children.
3. Mothers of teens now know why
some animals eat their young.
4. Children seldom misquote you.
In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
5. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children
more awful than your own.
6 We childproofed our homes,
but they are still getting in.
ADVICE FOR THE DAY:
Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home one day.
AND FINALLY:
IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TENSION AND YOU GET A HEADACHE, DO WHAT IT SAYS
ON THE ASPIRIN BOTTLE:
"TAKE TWO ASPIRIN" AND "KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN"!!!!!
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Problem Name
The famous Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced Peek-A-Boo) is not just an athlete....she is now a nurse currently working at the Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She is not permitted to answer the hospital telephones. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say,
Picabo, ICU.
(A good clean joke is hard to find these days --- pass it on! )
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A minister was completing a
temperance sermon. With great emphasis he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."
With even greater emphasis he said, "And if I had all the wine in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."
And then finally, shaking his fist in the air, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world, I'd take it and pour it into the river."
Sermon complete, he sat down.
The song leader stood very cautiously and announced with a smile, nearly laughing, "For our closing song,
let us sing Hymn #365, "Shall We Gather at the River."
Smile, life is too short not to !!
If this brightened your day
Don't let it stop here
Pass it on with a smile
Keep spreading the Cheer.
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