Randomness

• Why are cough drops wrapped in the noisiest cellophane possible? Don’t the cough drop makers realize that Murphy’s Law states that you only need a cough drop someplace where you’re supposed to be quiet? In other words, the theater, Church, movies, board meeting, etc…
  
  
• Green fruit like pears, green apples, and avocados confuse me. How do you know when they’re ripe? Oh, and I’m only guessing that avocados are fruit.
  
  
• Last Saturday while sitting at a stoplight I caught movement in my rearview mirror. I glanced up and saw a 40-something mom sitting in the driver’s seat of the SUV behind me. She was be-bopping along to the radio and her teenage daughter looked like she was ready to crawl under the seat. I instantly felt bad for the daughter. Then I chastised myself because I’m a 40-something mom who likes to be-bop along to the radio.
  
  
• Walking into a dressing room with an armful of clothes to try on is an inconvenient time to remember that you’re going “commando” in your yoga pants.
  
  
• I always smile when someone asks me if my hair is its natural color. After all these years, I still feel special to be a redhead.
  
  
• Melanie at Big Mama has decided to start an online book club. Her first selection is Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls. I read Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle and was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed her humorous and honest retelling of her painful childhood. So I decided to order a copy of Half Broke Horses from Amazon. Now that I’m in possession of the book, I’m not entirely sure if I’ll participate in the book club because I don’t know if I’ll be able read the fine print. The text looks like it’s in an 8 pt type. Seriously, I’ve never before seen such small print in a book. My “mature” eyes are protesting. Finally, I’m wishing for a Kindle so I can enlarge the text.
  

• I own a few zippered, sweater hoodies. A while back I noticed that the slider on the zipper of one of my hoodies was broken off. At the time, I was in a hurry and couldn’t decide what do with the sweater so I folded it and put it back on the closet shelf. Later, I remembered it and decided to cut the zipper out since the sweater was still in excellent condition. No point in having the metal teeth hanging around and getting in the way. I took the affected sweater out of the closet and cut one side of the zipper out with my scissors. It was simple to cut along the tape that held the zipper in place. One side was out and I moved onto the other side. That’s when I noticed that the zipper slide was still intact. Whoops. I grabbed the wrong sweater out of the closet. Oh well, now I have two open-fronted sweater hoodies sans zippers.
  
  
• News of all the snowstorms across the country reinforces how glad I am that I never had to stuff a toddler into a snowsuit.
  

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Your Turn

Can anyone guess what’s in the photo?