Curmudgeon Alley

2016/10/222016/12/27

Me Too

I work in the Metropolitan Building in downtown St. Louis. The Metropolitan is the tallest building in St. Louis and the second tallest in Missouri. It is 42 stories tall in the tower section of the building. It is listed as 593 feet. The next tallest building in St. Louis is the AT&T Center at 588 feet. For comparison the St. Louis Arch is 630 feet. I once rappelled from 150 meters (492 feet) which is a pretty good drop. I do not work at such lofty heights, but I am on the 7^th floor of the non-tower portion of the structure. My cube is right next to the outside walls and thus the large glass windows of the skyscraper.

Once year they clean all the windows on the outside. For part of the building they use the stereotypical platform hung from two points. On my portion of the building the window washers strap on what looks like a Continue reading “Me Too”

2016/10/182017/05/14

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Quick quiz:

Question 1: Name the most critically acclaimed book written by George Eliot?

Question 2: What is George Eliot’s real name? Continue reading “Silas Marner by George Eliot”

2016/10/172016/10/18

How To Move To Canada (If Trump Becomes President)

I will have to admit that more than once I have threaten to move to Canada if Trump were to be elected. Alternatively, I have considered taking my social security and pension checks and moving somewhere in Latin America. What A strange, strange pass we have come to in this country… A Canadian friend sent this to me. Do you think she is trying to tell me something? Instead of Yankee Go Home, is it Yankee Do Not Come?

2016/10/162016/10/17

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 8,070

yeah I know you did not ask!

I saw a yard sign that read, “To stop violence, try prayer.” I thought to myself if pray worked (or worked like that) this world would have been an utopia centuries ago.

2016/10/102016/10/10

I Had to Walk Away

I had just got done golfing Friday and went into the club house to get my post round Budweiser. On the TV, the news was blowing up with latest Donald Trump atrocity. Which one? They one where he got caught on tape bragging about assaulting women sexually.

The gentleman behind the counter was a fellow my age. We have had several nice conversations together. They are however, generally of the innocuous nature of small talk involving cars, golf or the Cardinals.

After watching the TV for a couple minutes I made the comment, Continue reading “I Had to Walk Away”

2016/10/10

Boys Will Be Boys

I generally work a half day on Fridays which allows me to go golfing in the afternoon if the weather is nice. At the course I generally go to, they have a senior scramble Friday mornings. When I say senior, I mean most of the guys appear to be in their 60s and 70s. They are generally in the club house when I get there between 1 and 2. They are going over the standings, prizes, etc. If not that they are in the parking lot unloading their golf carts.

I check in, and go to the first tee. As I am warming up I hear all this racket, gravel spewing, old men laughing hysterically and cheering. I look through the woods to the graveled parking lot to discover that they are having golf cart drag races.

Of course, at this point in the round, more than a few Budweiser have had their tops popped. However, boys will be boys no matter their age.

2016/10/10

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 2,583

yeah I know you did not ask!

I’m flipping through the channels and got stuck for a moment on the Rachel Maddox show. They were showing a Trump rally somewhere. There was a “gentleman” carrying a hand lettered sign that read, “Better to grab a P*&%y than to be one.

First at that point why are you bothering with masking the word pussy. You have already stepped over the line. Secondly, my thought was, “Hillary was right, many of the Trump supporters are deplorable.”

2016/10/102017/02/08

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought # 5,168

yeah I know you did not ask!

Somehow or another, one of my email addresses has become known to the spammers. I am getting several emails a day that read something like this, “Guys do you want to do it 3, 4, 5 or even 6 times a night…”

First of all in my prime I would have been lucky to do it 3 times a night, let alone 4, 5 or 6 times. Secondly, I could see a couch in my future if tried to wake up my wife up for whatever it is they think I could do 3, 4, 5 or even 6 times in one night.