Thursday, April 15, 2010

If You Don't Like What You See, Don't Look!

I have another important life lesson for you, dear readers. It is one of those things that should be quite simple, and yet it is a lesson often overlooked.

See, the day started as it normally does with your round, blue friend struggling to get out of bed and then dragging herself to the shower with only one googly eye open. Once in the shower, she filled her one open googly eye with shampoo, nicked herself twice with the razor, stubbed her toe getting out of the shower, and wrapped herself in her warm, fuzzy, towelly-wrappy-thingy that is really just a bath sheet with Velcro at the top. A normal day in the making.

Then, having pried open that googly eye that wouldn’t open before, and closed the one that was still on fire from an unhealthy dose of shampoo, she made her way down the stairs, still wrapped in her towelly-wrappy-thingy and did what she always does - grabbed a cigarette and a Diet Pepsi and headed for the garage.

(Don’t judge. I don’t smoke that much and I don’t smoke in the house.)

(Okay.)

(I SAID OKAY!)

(I’LL QUIT TOMORROW... DAMMIT!)

So… out into the garage she goes, wearing only a towelly-wrappy-thingy, a cigarette, and a Diet Pepsi, bringing the two blognutian hound dogs with her.

WHO LEFT THE GARAGE DOOR OPEN?!!!

There was a landscaper’s truck parked right at the end of the driveway. There were three men RIGHT there.

The hounds? Called attention to us and ran to the three men. The hounds? Would not stop jumping on the three men and barking as though they aimed to make a lunch of them. The hounds? Had to be gathered by Blognut, still wearing only a towelly-wrappy-thingy, a cigarette, and a Diet Pepsi.

The lesson: While some might think the obvious lesson here is put some damn clothes on before you go outside, even if you think the garage door that should be closed is closed, ‘cause you have three kids and it could be open, that is not the case. No, the lesson is DON’T PARK YOUR DAMN TRUCK AT THE END OF MY DRIVEWAY AND THEN ACT LIKE A SCARED SCHOOLGIRL WHEN THE BLOGNUTIAN HOUND DOGS BARK AT YOU THEREBY FORCING BLOGNUT TO COME ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THE DRIVEWAY TO POLICE UP THE HOUNDS WEARING ONLY A TOWELLY-WRAPPY-THINGY, A CIGARETTE, AND A DIET PEPSI.

That is all.

13 comments:

slommler said...

Oh!! I see! You are having one of THOSE kind of days!! I get it!! Really I do!!
Cracked me up...but I know at the time; you were not laughing!!
Did you ever get your cigarette?
If not, good! You can start today!
LOL!
Hugs
SueAnn

blognut said...

SUE ANN, Are you saying I'm cranky?

Cheri @ Blog This Mom!® said...

Wait a minute. I think there's a deeper issue here. I think you don't like trucks at all.

blognut said...

Or anyone else who tries to get a peek at my blognut bits without my permission.

Pseudonymous High School Teacher said...

This was hilarious. I could picture the whole thing.

Frogs in my formula said...

This is one of my favorite posts. You're entitled to a smoke and a soda in your towel in the morning, dammit. So funny.

Murr Brewster said...

Hey, you're fun. Thanks for visiting and making me come all the way over here!

I once took a leak in the massive, occlusive shade of a giant rhododendron in the middle of someone's lawn and everything was fine until a couple walked by on the sidewalk--still fine--and their dog pointed at me like I was true north and headed right for me. The couple kept telling the dog to leave the squirrels alone and then I strode out of the rhododendron, a fully dressed mail carrier with satchel and everything. I smiled and went on without explanation. I think it was best that way.

Jayne Martin said...

That's way too much chaos to start a day. I say those guys were just lucky you weren't packin' a pistol instead of a cigarette.

Eve said...

OH NO! What a morning!

Silly men and their silly trucks!

Aunt Snow said...

I bet they were more embarrassed than you.

bernthis said...

maybe it's just the universe telling you to quit smoking.

cue: blognut running after me yelling.

Sarah said...

What a great blog! You had me laughing aloud. My husband is famous for getting the paper/throwing out the garbage in his boxer shorts. On more than one occasion he has been stopped by neighbors to "chat". I have given up trying to reason with him---I have just asked that he wears his boxers twisted to the side so his dong doesn't come flying out mid-conversation.

I'll be back---consider yourself bookmarked.

A Woman Of No Importance said...

Poor Bloggus...

I bet you looked really pretty 'n' all!

I bet you made their day!