Saturday, June 22, 2013

Of all the places.........

Today my husband and I were taking one customary drives to pick up cars (we have a small used car dealership) that were purchased at auction and decided we were hungry. It was just a bit past 1 in the afternoon and we hadn't had lunch yet.  We decided to get a sandwich at one of our favorite places and as it turned out a bunch of motorcycle gang type guys were also eating there. 
   Now, I don't have anything against bikers, as I have been known to ride bikes myself and had a Harley for awhile.  We still have an Indian. But it was the general type of biker that we didn't feel like enjoying our lunch with. Anyway, we decided we wanted a nice peaceful lunch and a wonderful park was nearby, so we took our sandwiches to go style and headed to the park.
   This is a huge park, and I will admit that I haven't spent alot of time there, but we were having a terrible time trying to locate a picnic table, and I don't keep a blanket in the trunk to spread on the ground for a picnic.  It seems that this huge park, which has a number of shelters, only has picnic table in shelters. All we wanted was a single table or quiet bench in a shady spot some where.  All of the shelters were taken up by family reunions.

 
I guess there aren't any, so we pulled into a parking lot that absolutely no one was using, pulled under a nice tree, had the windows down and started to enjoy our great sandwiches, when all of a sudden this old beat up pick up truck pulls in right in front of us, nose to nose with us! I mean, not 3 feet away! Out jumps this woman who is screaming and cussing into her cell phone at some guy ( you could tell by the conversation)  and carrying  on like there's nobody else around.  A teenage girl is in the car, with a total look of boredom, as I am sure she has been through this drama before, just biding her time, while Momma makes a complete horses behind ( I've never been one to use the usual term) of herself.  My husband says "I don't think she needs the phone. He could hear her without it".  She hangs up, picks up, and is at it again, hangs up, picks up.......Well you get the picture.  We actually found it to be quite an entertaining show. We finished our sandwiches and headed out  to finish our errand. As we were leaving I thanked my husband for the nice peaceful lunch, giggle.  His reply: a  screaming " You're #!*#ing  welcome!" LOL    
"Of all the places in all the world" come to mind, doesn't it?

5 comments:

  1. I hate when that happens, I've been all alone in a parking lot and suddenly someone pulls up and parks right in front of me..I'll never understand why?

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    1. I don't either. It's like when you go to the matinee and there are only 10 people in the theater and some guy sits right next to you. What's up with that?

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  2. Of course. This morning Todd and I were watching the news only to find out that they found a murdered man in our favorite park by the river. Now I will never be able to watch the sailboats without thinking some guy was hacked to bits over her. Do you think Ma and Pa Ingalls had these problems?

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    1. of course they didn't. They only had Indians scalping people. Oh, I guess they did!

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