Thoughts and Stuff

Today--I did not one thing!!!  Well, actually when I went out to get my mail, I decided to limp the 50 feet up to Merle & Pearl's.  My back still hurts, when I walk, but the Sciatic is the one that hurts the most.  EGAD!!!

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I was sitting in my recliner, half asleep with two cats laying on me, when I heard a tiny noise.  I got up to look and--there was an ambulance at the house across the street.  I figured the old guy Bob had a heart attack or something, but then I saw him talking with his son.  Pretty soon, the EMT's came hauling Marilyn out on the stretcher.  The blanket wasn't pulled over her face, so that is always a good sign.

Come to find out, she was in the kitchen, turned and ran into the kitchen island, fell and suffered a compound fracture of her left arm.  The whole ball of wax--bone sticking out of the skin.  All that gory stuff.

Bob came home, but not her, so I suppose they are keeping her for surgery.  Probably have to have pins and screws and all that gruesome stuff done.

The ambulance has no sooner pulled away and in came a big apparatus and I watched as they pulled out a long hose and put it down the sewer pipe to flush out the sewer between Jackie and Marlyn and Bob's house.

Merle and Pearl had told me that the lady across the street from them had been having problems with backed-up sewage.  Last night Dar had told me that her house has had a bad sewer gas smell.

So when I got home, I told Dar and she was going to call the office to tell them her problem too.  What was really strange is that I told Dar, "Laura has had sewage problems."

Dar said, "Laura who.  Where does she live."

"Laura.  The lady with the autistic son."

"Oh.  I guess I don't know her."

"She lives next door to you!"

"Oh.  I've never met her."

Of course not Dar, because it's always ALL ABOUT YOU! <which I did not say, but thought.>  How can you not know the people that live 30 feet on either side of you?

I was curious, so I went outside and said to one of the workers, "Are we having a sewer problem in this area?"  (Knowing full well the people across the street were).

"Nope.  We're just flushing it so we don't have any problems."

LIARS!!!

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Speaking of liars--my sister called me tonight and we were talking about our Primary election today.

Susie said, "I know a lot of people and do you know, not one of them is voting for Donald Trump."

"None of the people I know are either."

"Then why is he winning in every State?"

"I heard a report that he appeals to the angry, under-educated, blue collar, gun-toting, beer drinking, kind of red neck people."

"Well, that would explain it.  We don't know any of those kinds of people."

I said, "Yes we do.  Your nephew and my son...probably adores him."

She said, "Well, at least Mark won't be voting Democratic in November.  There is something to be said for that."

and we both laughed!!  Yes, she and I are critical, judgmental, gossipy women.  Not openly, but in our private conversations.  HAH.