Here's Your Sign

I will admit, I do enjoy some of the redneck comedians out there. Bill Engvall does a skit called "Here's your sign" where the premise is essentially when people ask you stupid questions. For example..... "You see someone with a coat hanger in a car door and you ask them "lock your keys in your car?" Nope! Just thought i'd see if the coat hanger would fit! ....Here's your sign!"

The true Here's Your sign happened to me the other day............


Unfortunately, a cell phone was lost. Immediately called and had a hold put on the account, then talked with the cell phone company about a replacement. Talked to the customer service rep, they assured me they had the cell phone information and would be sending me a new one the next day. Great! I said....talk about making it easy for me, giving me no hassles....customer service is working here!!!!! Okay, before we disconnect, I just want to verify that the replacement phone matches the old one so that I don't need new accessories. This should be relatively easy right?

So I ask the woman...."Ma'm? is this the same model as what i had?" Her response "It should be......we can verify that though. Do you have your cell phone in front of you?" I of course started laughing and said "Ma'm....you are the lost phone claims department, and i'm reporting my phone as lost.....of course i don't have the phone in front of me." Her response was "oh my, you are right!" I couldn't resist.....i tried.....i just had to say it.......I responded back "HERE'S YOUR SIGN"

Gotta love when true life imitates the comedian's jokes!

Memorial Day and Thanks

It's Memorial Day here in the United States and most of us look at it as a "Thank God! a 3 day weekend".

Over the last couple years, I have seen a few parades and watched that there aren't many veterans left to walk in the parades. The last war we had was over 30 years ago and many of our veterans have passed on. This made me glad in some ways because I erroneously believed that we had started to learn as a country and a planet to get along and to not ever get to the point of "Let's kill and blow each other up".

Unfortunately, we have a new war making for new veterans to walk in these parades. To those who have lost someone in the Persian Gulf, given their life, given of themselves to protect others in the world and here at home, you have my sincere Thank you.

To the politicians in all the countries of the world who CAUSED these wars....try something different and work TOGETHER. We teach our children that fighting is not the answer to a problem and that it is a last resort. Funny how often it quickly becomes a last resort when someone else has what we want. To all of you...GROW UP and move us toward being a world that can SHARE it's intelligence, knowledge and differences rather than exploit and rub other people's noses in it.