I feel like a redneck

Over at The Adventures of Roberta X, there was discussion of the validity of combat boots as dress wear.   I typed my comment/response.  Hit post.  And then re-read what I’d typed*.  Oh well.

 

 

 

*I really did though, along with black jeans and a new blouse I’d bought for the occasion.  Course, my “wedding” was standing in front of a judge in her home office.  I refuse to spend thousands to notify the government of a promise between myself and my husband.  My mother managed to restrain her opinion of my mode of dress, which is good, because my backup wear was a Tshirt that read “I’m out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?”.


For everyone who read my post…

….on why I hate people some days, and then followed the link to find out why.

The Homeless Parrot has an update for all concerned.

Lastly, to all that were concerned about the man that stabbed the puppy, he was arrested on the spot. He was already on his way to jail when I saw the dog, so thankfully, I didn’t have to deal with that aspect of it. North Carolina has Susie’s Law so hopefully this non-human will suffer consequences for what he did. I also hope that his daughter is taken away from him. If I get any further information, I’ll let y’all know what happened.

 


Note to self

If we’re ever in the market to buy a house again, check and make sure all sinks, water heaters and other places where water is managed have their own individual shut offs.  If not ask why.  Also confirm correct pipe used in all instances, if not ask why.  If the above are partially or all “no” and we decide to buy the house anyway budget to fix the issue within the first month of moving in.


Accents

Tam is having fun with accents at the moment.  Now I was born and raised just north of Boston MA by parents from the Mid-west part of the country.  I was publicly made fun of (by my dad) if I ever dared mangle my R’s or do much else that resulted in improper pronunciation.  If anything I sound vaguely mid-western, but generally have not much accent at all unless I’ve been hanging round someone who does, then I have to put conscious effort into NOT copying their accent.  Though I can crack up my husband in a heartbeat by trotting out the old standard of  “pahk the cah in Hahvahd yahd” in pure Bostonion.

The stories in the comments of her posts reminded me of the experience of a co-worker a while back.  While I was working for Home Depot one of the front end supervisors came up to me quite horrified by a miss-translation he’d just had.  Seems he’d had a customer ask him for a “dough”.  My co-worker was quite confused, and it took several back and forths before he realized the customer was looking for a “door”.  He was horribly embaressed by it, I just laughed.