oddities, observations, & ?'s...#15
I remember learning at some point the acronym, R and R, referred to Rest and Relaxation during World War II. When the '50s came along, R and R was adapted to fit a new kind of music. Today, R and R stands for, Retaliation and Revenge.
While waiting for the last tanker car of a long CSX freight train to clear the intersection, I was in awe of the artwork displayed on a good portion of the boxcars. When are these motion pictures painted? Who are these talented people? My favorite on this sequence of boxcars, oil tankers and flat beds was a scene from Harry Potter that covered one whole side of a car.
I have always booked hotels direct because I like dealing with the front desk of my destination. That seems impossible today as calls are directed to a corporate operator of most chains who are no doubt in some far away land.
Costco Corporate received an e-mail from me questioning their decision to stop selling paperbacks. Barnes and Noble is my primary book source, but, I never failed to find a bestseller at a reduced price when I shopped Costco.
The number of people who have a Handicap Parking Permit who are just lazy and don't want to walk would probably boggle my mind.
I was watching a 1950s movie in which a long distance call was made. The actor placing the call had to utilize a telephone switchboard operator to complete the call. It brought to mind other professions from that era that are almost obsolete, such as: elevator operators, typists, milk men who delivered milk to your home, and, gas station attendants. Might be worth a blog some day.
David Baldacci's, The Christmas Train, had a great line spoken by the narrator of the story. People over 30 were unceremoniously stripped of their cool gene. It reminded me of a 25 year old program director I worked for who referred to everyone over 30 as a raisin. I was 43.
HUH? What's up with that?
Regina and I attended the wedding reception of our niece, Mollie, in Indy at Plum Creek Country Club. Weddings are usually accompanied by a groan by most men at some point after opening the invitation, but not this one. Everyone wanted to be a part of this celebration.
A trucking company called, Haulin Assets Trucking, is selling T shirts that say, Makin Ship Happen. Then, while on the highway, I spotted a TM Trucking semi-truck with, Making Ship Happen on the side. Two companies with the same slogan except for one letter? Strange. I get the message, but, I have always thought slogans and advertising should be above gutter level. Same with Morgan and Morgan's, Size Matters.
I just finished Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. It is one of the best, if not the very best fiction I have ever read.
My first radio job was in Michigan City, Indiana 60 years ago. I had been thinking of several of the people I worked with who were close to my age. A Google search revealed the first two I looked up were no longer in attendance. End of search.
The innocence of youth. I was checking out at a vegetable and produce store in Louisville when two teenage cahiers started a conversation with each other in spite of both of them busily helping customers. They were separated by at least 10 feet of space. This is the dialogue.
Hey, Lindsay, where do you buy tires? I've got a nail in one of mine. Oh, jeez, I don't know. But, you can drive for a long time with that before you have to do something. Really? Oh, good, because I don't want to tell my dad. Besides, Claire, you probably have to drive a long way to buy tires around here.
There is a Michel Tires across the street from where we stood and Big O Tires is three blocks away.
The Charles Barkley, GPT FanDuel, television commercials are excellent. Great writing, good acting and excellent concept. I have no doubt FanDuel hit their target audience.
This has to be one of the all-time great company slogans. I saw it on the side of a restaurant food supply delivery truck. Wherever we deliver, get a table.
How many times will I walk around a parking lot looking for my car before I do a better job of remembering where I parked?
I love hidden euphemisms intended to disguise the real meaning of the words used. Or, at the least, they are used to sugarcoat reality. An example. Unscheduled Rapid Disassembly. Elon Musk used it when his space ship blew up.
Trump sent the National Guard to LA to handle immigrant protesters. I guess the Guard was closed on January 6th.
Coming up: working at the car wash; another POS, and; a job$ somebody's gotta do.
And, finally. I am beginning to like Rand Paul and I don't even know what a Libertarian Conservative is on the political scale. He claims he and his family were disinvited to a White House picnic because of his opposition to Trump's big bill. The Kentucky senator said, That action shows how petty and small the president is.
Then again as another occupant of this household has said, All these guys love him until Trump does something to him or her.
And, that brings us back to that R and R thing.
HUH? What's up with that?
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