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Joe really oughta keep these to himself, but he what the hay…
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Fox News seems to be on everywhere. I actually think it is a conspiracy by businesses, but that is just me. Sitting in a restaurant with Fox News in the background I thought they should be forced to put a scroll bar across the bottom that reads “Not for human consumption”, much like offal going to the rendering plant.
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Gary McCord, the golf announcer, has this bit about naming his age spots. I thought that a fine idea, and started naming my age spots too. Quit some time ago, I ran out of names.
This does not happen often, but…
My hair is a little longer than is common today. My attitude is at my age if you have it, flaunt it. When I drive Li’Blue with the top down it blows my hair in a way I am sure is very dramatic! (Insert the smiley face of your choice here) Add to this mix the fact that some folks believe Miatas (MX5s) to be chick cars. If they have not driven one, their opinion would change if they did. I will admit to making a woman scream more than once when she was in Li’Blue.
I’ll be driving along and feel a vehicle pull up even with me. I know it is a guy (or guys) thinking it is a blonde female driving the car. I’ve not done it YET, but I am always tempted to blow them a kiss. I do turn my half-shaven, mustached face towards them and grin. That is about the time they goose their vehicle.
Men are such pigs!
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I walked out the back door and looked around. I then said thank you Jesus for the beautiful flowers, the wonderful trees and the green grass.
Jesus smiled and said, “De nada, volveré la próxima semana”, as he handed me the bill.
I left work a little after 1730. I started to encounter traffic not far from the garage where I park. This is unusual as the garage is the last stop before the road next to the Mississippi River. Usually, what I see are tourists lost, not knowing where to turn.
Then THEY started to appear. First it was a stray pair or two. Then I started to see groups of 3 and 4. The groups began to coalesce into larger groups of a dozen or so. As I turned the corner and drove past the back side of the casino I saw more and more groups. What was scary was that they were walking far more rapidly than I was used to seeing. They were walking with a purpose! And not a one was walking head down, thumbs all akimbo, eyes lost in a micro-world of a smart phone.
As I approached the lights before the Edward Jones Dome the groups swelled to a tsunami. Everywhere I looked it was teeny-boppers with far too few clothes on. Yeah there was the occasional mother, and I did even see one teen boy of questionable gender.
It dawned on me that there must be a concert tonight in the Dome. So I looked it up when I finally arrived at the house. One Direction is playing tonight. To perfectly honest I have no idea who they are. From their website they look like the boy band de jour.
I’m under the opinion that for the most part women/girls dress for other females, except when they are obviously trolling. There must have been several thousand young girls, obviously trolling, with a fantasy that they would attract the attention of whoever their favorite of these boys de jour was.
Strange sight.
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I’m not much of a sports fan. I used to follow college football some, primarily the University of Oklahoma. Mainly because it is difficult to live in Oklahoma and not follow them, like it is difficult to not follow the Cardinals when you live in St. Louis. However, I have noticed a trend the last few years… guys who are not interested in sports and who are not afraid to say it. It used to be that you were less than manly if you could not cite the latest win/loss record of whomever. What a nice trend. There is more to life that sports.
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Blondes – The ultimate public servants, allowing the rest of the world to feel superior.
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I passed an AT&T company car this morning going to work. I so wanted to get the driver’s attention, make the sign of phone by ear and then point at myself. I resisted the impulse.
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I do not know if this inability to observe and learn or an overestimation of one’s driving abilities and reaction times. 
According to the State Farm website a safe following distance is the 3 second rule, 4 seconds is better. That is when the car in front of you passes an object start counting. You should be up to at least 3 before you pass the same object. Rush hour traffic in St. Louis moves between 0 and 80 mph. I try to get no closer than 2 seconds. Primary because at 62 going on 69 I know my reaction times are not what they were. Even at this separation, I have folks pulling in front of me all the time, or trying to whip around me because I am going too slow. Never mind that I maintain a constant separation with the vehicle ahead.
The percentage of all accidents that are rear-end collisions (termed a shunt in UK) is between 23 and 30%. I drive 50 plus miles round trip commuting from Chesterfield to downtown St. Louis. I almost never have a round trip without seeing at least one accident. Frequently I see multiple accidents, and the accidents frequently involve more than two cars. My estimation of the rush hour traffic accidents being rear-end collisions is in the high 90s. Rear-end collisions are almost always caused by following too close.
Let’s get back to my opening statement. I would think if you see this type of accident repeatedly happening a bell would go off somewhere. I will vouch that it does not. Tailgating is an awful problem in St. Louis rush hour traffic. Maybe there is a reason humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over, century after century. Meanwhile I will maintain my 2 second separation and if you get too close to my bumper I will start slowing down.
“He is an engineer, not an idiot.”
So many things that could be said.