The #1 reason I shake my fist at the cashier doesn't have to do with money. You'll see the reason in the last picture. Before you take a look at that one, I've provided some other photos for your viewing pleasure. If you are on Instagram, you may have seen a couple of these. If you don't know what Instagram is all about, let's forget I brought it up.
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| You may not buy special car seats for your $1.95 bouncy balls, but we sure as heck do!! Do you know if a car suddenly stopped, a bouncy ball would fly through the air and bounce off the windshield going really fast? STRAP THE SUCKERS UP! Okay, my 4-year-old did this and I have no clue why. |
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| Even the egg whites have their own reality show. This is going too far. |
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| You know you're too hooked on The Hunger Games if "Peeta" is the first word you try to arrange from these letters. If you tried to arrange "TACG" first, see a specialist. |
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| When I saw that the dollar store was selling steaks, you know I had to take a picture of that mess. I actually did go inside, but I got sidetracked by the book graveyard before I found the steaks. I just kept thinking of the hours and hours people put into writing these books and now they're collecting dust on the dollar store bookshelves. I acutally bought the book The Rocket That Fell to the Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality by Jeff Pearlman. I've only read page one so far, but actually intend on reading the whole thing. We'll see... |
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| THIS is the #1 reason... Every time I see the gasoline choices arranged this way, I slit my eyes and stare through the glass at the cashier for a good long while. They never see me, though. I know they're trying to trick me. I firmly believe that the choices should go from least to greatest, not the reverse. If they put the least amount right smack dab in the middle, I slit my eyes for a really long time and then shake my fist in the air. They never see that, either. LOOK AT ME! I'M ANGRY OVER HERE! |
That's it for my photo album.
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Before you go to make copies of my pictures to hang over your mantle, I'd like to get your opinion on something...
E-mail accounts and kids.
When should they be introduced?
My sons are 4 and 7, so I was thinking it would be a long time before I hooked them up. A couple of weeks ago, however, KidsEmail.org contacted me about their services and, shortly thereafter, my 7-year-old had an account.
He. Loves. It. He truly has had a lot of fun receiving encouraging messages from his grandparents, his aunts and uncles, his dad and me. He feels all big and grown up, I think. On top of reading the fun messages, it has allowed us to work on his writing and spelling skills.
The other awesome thing about it is that he can only receive e-mails and send e-mails to the contacts list that is set up by the parent. So, that person in Nigeria wanting to give him $1,000,000 will have to keep his wad of cash to himself. In addition to that, there are all sorts of settings you can arrange so that you can receive notifications of new e-mails your child receives, e-mails he sends out, whether or not the e-mails can receive digital images, etc. You can be as Big Brotherish as you want to be.
If you are interested in trying it out, anyone can go on-line and try it for 30 days free of charge. Once the 30 days has passed and you haven't renewed it, it drops. It doesn't just bill your card or anything like that. If you are interested in trying it out for a longer period of time for free, you can enter this giveaway for:
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20 comments:
my nephews are 6 and 11 and they have very similar email accounts with the restrictions and such. They love it too! I set up a yahoo account for my chinchilla, Humphrey, since the boys LOVE to visit him, they now look forward to the emails they get from "humphrey"!
I shake my fist at the gas station too!! They're just trying to trick good people. Bah!
Also? Love the bouncy ball strapped in car seat.
Great post. So funny!!!! As for email, I have to think about that for a bit. My kids are 7 and 9. I'm not sure I want them getting involved with email yet. But this kids email does sound cool. Thanks for the suggestion!
I think my 18 year old and 14 year old might object to me downsizing, but I wish this had been around when my kids were your kids age.
I love the egg whites. The REAL Egg Whites of Houston. And I love you, too. The REAL Kelley of Kelley's Break Room...because as we all know, there is an actual poser Kelley of Kelley's Break Room. Not to bring up old wounds...Grrr....
xxx ooo
I agree....the gas station is trying to trick you into buying the most expensive gas!!!
Agreed on the gas arrangement. I put diesel in my car once because of the one station in town who decided they're get all crazy with their order...
On another note, I definitely picked out "PEE" before anything else..umm
They do always change it up at different gas stations always throws me for a loop!
That gas station is very clever. But out here in Oregon there is a bigger spread between the prices of different types of gas.
The gas station has gotten me on the at a couple of times actually. ARGH It's a conspiracy.
Here in Oregon we have that weird law that doesn't allow us to pump our own gas. The gas attendant does it for us. So I always just say "Give me your finest and cheapest gas you have, good sir". But if I had to do it myself and saw a pump like the one in your picture my fists would be raised too.
I love the bouncy ball in the car seat picture! Ewwww...dollar store steaks!
My kids, 10 & 12 have just started with email accounts, I wish I would have known about the KidEmail.org - we just use gmail, but before they signed up, I needed them to know that I needed their passwords, would be logging into their accounts periodically, to check on things, and they are only allowed to email people that they know in real life, and not allowed to give their email addresses out online. So far, so good.
The ball in the car seat just cracks me up, for some reason.
As for email for kids, I think that's an ideal solution, and it really turns them onto writing with a tool they wouldn't normally have at such a young age.
KKKKeeelll, I haven't been around in a while, I've been sidetracked, but every time I stop by I wonder why I'm not here every day... loved the photos and the commentary! I've seen that sign for the steaks at the Dollar Tree, a bit scary I think. You're better off eating the Roger Clemens book! Keep up the great writing! xo, LG :)
I think it's important for little ones to have email accounts, they are so much more advanced in the computer department they need to have accounts, just so techno illiterate people like me can email them to ask questions!
OK, that egg white picture was hilarious. You crack me up.
Agreed on the gas grades. Also, girls bathrooms should be on the left and boys bathrooms should be on the right. The student bathrooms at my school are exactly opposite this, and it throws me all the time.
The Book Graveyard sounds- damn that is a writer's nightmare. You spend countless hours writing a book and then find out everyone thinks it sucks.
Put my name in for the Amazon gift card, please!
I couldn't agree more with you about that gas station deception.
I think my station is even worse because I'm convinced that they switch it up on a regular basis so you get confused and push the wrong thing.
Also, I refuse to blame myself for being too confused (or lazy) to actually check the pricing carefully.
Life is hard, right?
I thinks its cool that they can't receive email from people who aren't on their list. It makes them feel important
I think it is okay for children to have an email account as long as it is safe and responsible like the ones KidsEmail.org. I certainly wouldn't just set them up with an unrestricted one and leave them be unsupervised.
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