Things that amaze & things that #!!!%&****

Today I saw something that I don't see very often but it has always amazed me. When I see it, its kind of like seeing a really good card trick and going "how did he or she do that!!!!!!" I had to go to the grocery store to buy coffee and stuff for the lunchroom. When I had unloaded my stuff into my car a older guy walked up to me and asked if he could buy my cart cause he didn't have a looney, just a dollar. I was mesmerized. He could have taken my cart and not given me my dollar in change and I probably would not have noticed. For hanging off his bottom lip was a rolly. For those of you uninitiated, that is a hand rolled cigarette. It was stuck to his lower lip, still smoldering, like it was crazy glued on there. He could talk normally, you know, open his mouth fully while forming words, and that sucker just stayed right there, as if it had always been there. I wanted him to keep talking cause I wanted to see it bob along on his lip, but I was totally flabergasted and couldn't thing of anything to say. Besides, I guess it might have been rude to just stare at it, like you might if he had a melanoma on his lip, like that teacher in the movie "Uncle Buck". What a great show. The thing was kind of ugly and brown, just like that melanoma, but I digress. Through all the years that I was a slave to that ugly weed I could never get a cigarette to hang on my lip like that. Ahhh missed oppurtunities.
The thing that choked today was not something that I rarely see, in fact I see it to often. It was one of these 4 X4 trucks, with the real nice paint job, fancy chrome wheels and those (bleeped out) lights in the bumper of the truck that are usually brighter than any other hi-beam lights on any other vehicle. By far most of these vehicles will never see any off road conditions or rougher terrain than a grid road, so what is the reason for putting these bright lights on a vehicle. And trucks are not the only ones with these lights. I see lots of small cars, usually in the sporty class with these mini suns stuck in the bumper. If you meet one of these vehicles on the highway and give them a quick blink with the hi-beams, they then get indignant and turn ther hi-beams on and leave them on. Now it is like driving directly into the sun and all you can do is squint into that glare and pray that you are not in their lane. Why would car makers put these lights on cars. These aren't rally cars that drive through the desert at night. These are cars that are never driven anywhere but on asphalt for goodness sake. I just really hate those lights.
Anyway those are just a couple of things that occupied my mind today. But the most important was that my grandson Noah is coming here from Winnipeg tomorrow and I along with his grandmother get to see him first cause I get to pick him up at the airport. I haven't seen him since thanksgiving and I really miss him. He started walking at 9 months and is now 10 and Jonathan told me last night that the boy is almost running already. He looks so much like his father that it's almost eerie. When I look at him it is like turning back the clock almost 30 years. This is going to be one of my best Christmas' ever. Mike is coming home from BC and that means my whole family will be here. I have a great family and this is going to be just great.