Sooner or Later…

It’s just been one of those weeks.   Weather wise as hot as mid-July and as dry as August.  The rain clouds are big, beautiful and full of yellow spots, but as it reaches the western edge of our county everything slowly turns green and disappears.  Life just gets more interesting.  

• There ought to be a law about old, grey headed people and the cars they drive.  If you think 40 mph is cruising, 45 mph is getting with it, and 55 mph is living dangerously please…DO NOT buy a Firebird or a Corvette.  It is extremely frustrating to get stuck behind someone driving 40 mph on the open highway–ten times more frustrating when that someone is driving a Firebird or a Corvette.  Firebird turned off and not 5 minutes later drove up behind the Corvette.  95 outside, no air-conditioning, 40 mph.  Like my dad’s elderly friend said “why’d ja buy da sumbitch if ya ain’t gonna drive hit?”
• Had regional 4H O’Rama this past week.  (Consider it like districts in sports)  Kids who’ve won different county competitions come to compete against each other.  Lots of different areas:  BB shooting, fashion, speeches, to bicycle riding.  Sitting in the auditorium, waiting for things to begin there was a girl about 11 yo wearing a long formal.  Every time I looked at my ds she was in the background right beside his head.  I couldn’t not see her and finally another mother remarked “I can’t help looking at that girl.”  Why?  Trying to figure out if she was wearing a nude slip or not.  So things finish and we are walking up the sloping aisle.  Look up and the first thing that comes into sight–this girl’s white whale-tail as seen through her dress!   That wasn’t a nude slip– it was a butt-cheek!   Not only did someone not read the rules about ‘church clothes dressy’ only, someone else failed to just look at her.  If it was that visible in a semi-dark auditorium what about broad daylight?  She is only 10 or 11. Where was her mother?  Where was her group leader?  Wasn’t anyone she knew embarrassed for her?  Words fail me.
• The younger set spent the past weekday mornings doing VBS at the local Baptist church.  Would someone please explain this:  God through the Bible forbids tatoos.  So why are the kids given temporary tatoos as rewards??  Isn’t that teaching children to think that tatoos are cool?  So why be totally outraged when those same children get the real thing when they are older?  Does having a ‘Christian’ theme make it OK?  I’m confused.  

People are fine–then it’s time to go home.