There’s one about a half-mile back.

Yeah, you just saw that.

I hope I’m not the only one laughing hard at this children’s book. Because if I am, it tells me a lot more about myself than I want to know.

Please note that I’m quite used to receiving hate mail, but if you want to hit me with some on this one, I hope your messages can fight their way through the 2,000+ spam comments sitting in my inbox right now.

Cheers,

Nate

I don’t know if it’s just the grocery stores in the upper Midwest or what, but they seem to be a magnet for awkwardness. Consider these two images from my latest trip:

1. I’ve been making this lame awfully witty joke since I was 8 years old: “Where’s the toast aisle?” Well, I guess it’s existed all along, right next to the ice cream cones. Don’t I feel like an idiot.

2. Is there an official Halloween Council? If so, who is the presiding member? And when did said council obtain corporate sponsorship? And why would the corporate sponsorship take the form of Big Milk? I am udderly (insert collective groan from the audience) confused. But hey, at least my haunted house this year will have blood, guts, monsters, and lots and lots of milk.

I think I may need to create a new ‘Facepalm Through Head’ category because I’m not sure if ‘Things I Wish I Haven’t Seen‘ does this story justice.

I just read a story about a Dallas-area student who was held from her high school because of a dress code violation.

So why is this story newsworthy? What if I said that the dress code violation was because of a single piece of jewerly? What if I said that the piece of jewerly was a rosary? And, here’s where it really gets weird, the reason for the infraction is that her rosary is considered a “gang symbol.”

Either this is the biggest politically correct overreaction I’ve ever heard or Dallas is crawling with some really devout gang members; either way…

BTW, Nate tells me to never Google Image Search ‘devout’… I’ve never been brave enough to find out what all the fuss is about but I’m just passing along the warning.

And then there are those that are completely devoid of common sense.

I just read a story that a grifter at British Columbia’s Saanich Fair used a fake contest to mine personal information from unsuspecting folks eager to win the free trip to Las Vegas. A free trip for filling out an entry form with a so-called travel agency? Seems reasonabily legit, right? What if I told you that this free trip was a cruise to Las Vegas?

I know that Miss Teen South Carolina believes that many “US americans” struggle with geography because the “don’t have access to maps” but maybe Canada Canadians struggle with this same issue. You know… because Las Vegas is land-locked and in a desert.

About a month ago I wrote this post about the ghetto tigers in our local grocery store parking lot. Well, I’m happy to announce that they came back for a second run, and this time I got the pictures to prove it.

Enjoy.