tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post4412267542650176251..comments2024-02-02T00:22:18.479-06:00Comments on Okay, Listen Here: You Can't Make This Stuff UpStephanie Jones AKA Alicia Hunter Pacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03023631488715031414noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-74035779816063947842011-04-06T15:48:34.738-05:002011-04-06T15:48:34.738-05:00I'd also like to mention that it was so cute w...I'd also like to mention that it was so cute when the newly returned soldier opened his birthday gift from his wife, a very expensive bottle of Tequila and a shot glass. (Huh? Am I the only one who thinks that's weird? LTC says "maybe he really likes Tequila.")Katherine Bonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14701961380138616355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-11670931126913977182011-04-06T15:46:21.681-05:002011-04-06T15:46:21.681-05:00Stephanie, there are some things stranger than fic...Stephanie, there are some things stranger than fiction. ;)<br /><br />Wow! Cheryl, that is quite a loaded story (pardon the pun). What some people will do to get attention... LOL!<br /><br />Crystal, there are some things that aren't mean to be seen. It's like those WalMart pictures. Have you ever seen them? People wear the wildest and most disturbing stuff to WalMart.<br /><br />People always ask me questions when I'm in a store. I guess because I've worked in retail they think I work there and know where everything is at. Or maybe this says something about the purposeful way I walk into a store, concentrate on what I'm looking for, then wistfully lose track of time. Whatever the cause, strangers will ask me if I work there.<br /><br />Cheryl, I can't go anywhere without my mother telling her life story to someone. ;) <br /><br />This raises a few very important questions:<br /><br />What is wrong with this world we live in?<br /><br />Who raised these people?<br /><br />What line were they in when brains were being handed out?<br /><br />And, as an aside about caring faces, in a world where no one cares about strangers, one smile, one spark in the eye during a conversation can open up people's hearts. Obviously Jean and Cheryl have that spark and that is why complete strangers feel so at ease speaking with them.Katherine Bonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14701961380138616355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-17022604728320710492011-04-06T13:24:52.862-05:002011-04-06T13:24:52.862-05:00"Po' white trash" as my Bigmama used..."Po' white trash" as my Bigmama used to say. <br /><br />Thanks for the info on the dog laxative Jean. Hope I don't ever have to try it. I too have one of those faces. People, especially waitresses, will tell me their life stories (like I want to hear that), with ALL the details. My husband has learned to just sit there and take it because I am too polite to say I don't care. LOLCherylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-85659782858607539462011-04-06T11:22:21.903-05:002011-04-06T11:22:21.903-05:00Last week in the grocery store a young man approac...Last week in the grocery store a young man approached me and asked if I knew where to find the canned pumpkin. (I have one of those faces. I am forever crawling around on the floor picking out cat food for people who can't bend down or reading labels for people who can't see. I hope someone will be willing to cheerfully do these things for me one day.) Anyway, this guy was about 25 and clearly capable of crawling and seeing. He just didn't have much pumpkin buying experience. I explained that it was sometimes with the canned fruit and sometimes with the canned pie filling. We found it in the latter. We then had to work out if he wanted pumpkin pie mix or solid pack pumpkin. Again, it was the latter. Then he told me why he wanted it. Turns out, according to him, pumpkin is an excellent dog laxative. (Don't try this at home. There was nothing about this young man to lead me to think he was a liar or vindictive but, then again, there was nothing to lead me to think he was a vet.)Then I got way to much information about his dog's bowel movements and lack there of. <br /><br />By the by--that woman was not a Southern Belle. She was trashy.Alicia Hunter Pace (aka Jean Hovey and Stephanie Jones)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13844329805282121486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-86597045417001925302011-04-06T08:25:03.429-05:002011-04-06T08:25:03.429-05:00Hysterical stories, ladies! I'm with Cheryl--t...Hysterical stories, ladies! I'm with Cheryl--think I'll steer clear of that restaurant, too. I don't go to horse shows, but they certainly sound entertaining!<br /><br />Okay, the only thing that springs to mind at the moment is a tragic story I will not share. To do so would spoil the festive mood ignited by this post. Suffice it to say, the incident I refer to left me in a state of utter disbelief. It was the kind of thing you read about other people seeing.Crystalnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-79268336983532824462011-04-06T06:32:00.898-05:002011-04-06T06:32:00.898-05:00Remind me to never visit that restaurant! LOL
I ...Remind me to never visit that restaurant! LOL<br /><br />I was at a horse show and there was a cart class. Tennessee Walkers are very good at pulling carts like Standardbreds (race sulkies). There was this woman who was wearing a sequined tube top under her jacket who was driving one of the carts. As the horses went faster and faster around the ring, her top kept going lower and lower. Until...you got it, the entire top went down to her waist. Irate mothers were covering their kids eyes and men were leaning over the railings to get a better look. Most of us other women were laughing. Her hands were full with the reins and controlling the horse so she didn't bother with the top (wardrobe malfunction). When the horses lined up and stopped, she still didn't bother with the top. Guess who won first place? She took the ribbon and drove out still bouncing all over the place. Only in the South!!!Cherylnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2018633413564074437.post-6397597565190188172011-04-06T06:18:12.551-05:002011-04-06T06:18:12.551-05:00I see things every day that no editor would buy be...I see things every day that no editor would buy because it is to unbelievable. Of course, it may not be as strange as your Southern Belle experience but still hard to believe. One thing that springs to mind is the parents who didn't want their 4th grader to play Little League baseball because he might get hurt and not get to start football season 100%. Crazy, crazy, crazy!Stephanie Jones AKA Alicia Hunter Pacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03023631488715031414noreply@blogger.com