Hang Bells and Chimes in your Trees for Added Ambiance in the Garden

I met this guy at my church when I first moved here.  Nice guy, really.  Good looking, too.  Not a romance, though, and you'll understand why by the end of this post.  He has a very sweet little daughter and my son likes to have playdates with her.  We go to their house once in a while, nice swimming pool, a chance for my son to play with dolls, which I personally  think is very healthy for boys.  So sick of guns.

So anyway, the last time we got together he invited us out for lunch at one of those God-awful loud pizza joints designed to hyper stimulate children with carnival style rip-off games to steal their parents' money.  We went...against my better judgment.  I think I agreed to it mostly because I was lonely that day, craving adult company, and he said he would drive.

So he picks us up in his car and I notice he does not put his seat belt on.  He's got his daughter all safely strapped in to her extremely expensive car seat, but he himself does not strap in.  I'm like, "What's up with that?"  And he says, "I always used to wear my seat belt, but then when they made it a law and said I have to wear it, I don't want to anymore."  I'm thinking, what a dip shit.  (I meet a LOT of people like that here in Arizona.  WTF?)  And I'm thinking, well, that'll be really nice for your daughter when you get hit by some idiot and she gets to watch your skull go through the windshield.  But hey, survival of the fittest, you know?  I didn't press the issue because I wasn't in the mood for an argument with a fool.

But here's the part that really got to me:  he has not turned off the damned bell that goes off when you don't have your seat belt on!  The bell was ringing CONSTANTLY while we were driving.  DING DING DING DING DING.  I thought I was going to go insane.

People!  If you are going to be an idiot and refuse to wear your seat belts, PLEASE DISENGAGE THE BELL so you don't drive your passengers out of their minds!!!

(These would be really lovely hanging from a tree in your garden.)

Original material © 2011 betsylolafalanadowling.blogspot.com, Brain Fuzz & Betsy Dowling, All Rights Reserved