Good Morning Citizens,
So… there I was having a
friendly drive to the post office to deposit a letter in the drop box. There
are 2 cars blocking the 4 boxes. I wait. I wait. Still I waited. The cars do
not move. A car backs out of a spot directly across from the boxes. I pull in,
park, jump out, cross the 20 feet of parking lot, drop my letter in a box,
scurry back across the parking lot, get back in my car, back out and drive
away. Car 1 was apparently writing her
letter and then looked all over her car for a stamp. Car 2 was simply escorting
car 1. You see car 1 blocked all four boxes and car 2 the space behind. When
car 1 left, car 2 simply followed close behind and I do mean close; not even
three feet separated the bumpers and they did not stop at the boxes. It was freaky.
They stayed that close as far as I was going the same direction.
Further down the street
from the post office as I was coming to an intersection without a stop sign;
the cross traffic had to stop but not our lane, freaky car couple slowed down
to almost a stop and drove on. I get to the intersection without slowing down
and the car at the cross street decides to go ahead and turn right in front of
me. Can you not see the huge dark grey Lincoln steam-rolling toward you? Did
your stop sign say “all stop or 4-way stop”? NO NO it did not!!!! Did they
notice I was about to slam into them? Yes right about 10 seconds from impact
and they stepped on the gas with a look of panic on their face. No, I did not
hit them; I actually slowed way down and let them get far ahead.
“Mom, let’s get some
lemonade from Sonic for the drive home.”
Good idea. We pull in and poke the red
button, “Raspberry lemonade and a strawberry lemonade please.” The box responds ….”uh we are out of lemonade”.
My response “Excuse me?” The box “we are out of lemonade”. Ok… “Watermelon cream slush and water”. The box
responds “we are out of watermelon”.
I started the
car, backed out and left. It is a good thing rocket launchers are not a factory
installed item on a Lincoln. How can you
be out of lemonade in July???
My friend Vic was working a
crossword puzzle when the puzzle was Old Nick. So she fills in the blank with
Santa thinking it is Santa Claus as in Jolly old St. Nicholas. I would have
done the same thing. Except that was wrong. Old Nick is Satan not Santa. She asked
me if I knew anything about this. Surprisingly I do not, but, we are all about
to learn about it.
Old Nick - an English
appellation of Christian teaching about the Devil. Yeah that clears it right
up.
Old Nick refers to the
devil, Satan, Master of Hell. It is
British/Australian jovial term for Satan.
It was first used around 1645. The Dutch word for devil is nikken and this word
nikken comes through the anglo/saxon
word noec-an , which means to slay. In
the North there are tales of an evil river spirit named Nikke.
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Some believe that Old Nick
comes from Niccolò Machiavelli; or perhaps from the word iniquity. Iniquity is sin, act of depravity, wickedness,
and evil-doing.
You are welcome!
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