Case in point about there being nothing here for those between eight and eighty... the two most commented-on items in our Talkback section of the paper were... get this... squirrel infestations and loony person (probably old) declaring that saggy pants should be outlawed. While I agree that saggy pants are completely bass-ackwards (how do they walk?), a law banning them? Really? What's next? They've already pushed to ban skateboarders from the park and birds too. I think the elderly in this city won't be happy until they can sit on their front porch all day and say, "Yayupp..." "Uh huh..." to each other back and forth to fill the silence of nobody else being allowed to do anything.
And squirrels? Who gives a crap if there are squirrels in your back yard? They're God's critters too. Just educate your youngins to stay the heck away from them and not to pet them and I doubt there will be a problem.
My grandma had a pet squirrel who fell out of the tree when I was a tiny. His (or should I say her?!) name was Buddy and she munched on peanuts on our porch from about 1996-1998. I'd play Barbies on the porch while she ate them, occasionally feeding them to her myself. We followed the epics of her life (she had a nest of babies in a tree down the street) until one day she disappeared.
Sorry for the rant. I just find it silly.
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