Sunday, November 14, 2010

Cigarettes and Texting!!!!




It's 6:30 in the evening, dark and I'm ready for bed.
Adjusting to the time change, not a good fit for me. I need light!!!
Maybe I'm just fatigued from my weekend in Auburn, with my children?
My children don't cause me to be tired, it's the social behavior of others that wear me OUT!!!
An SEC football weekend, brings out droves of people. People bring with them, too much stuff!!!
We were stopped in traffic for over an hour, 1 mile to go!!! We were 1 mile, from our destination, and we came to a stop. Not a lull, a full blown, turn the car off, is there a wreck up ahead halt!!!
I had to find some humor in the situation, or turn the car around, and miss the fun, never!! So I threw open the sun window, the one in the top of the car??I don't know what it is called. Hart(son) has a Hummer, and it has a large sun roof thing, so I opened it, stood up in the car and took photos.As far as the eye could see, cars, stacked like dominoes!!!Me screaming, "My father is right, there are two many people!" Hart screaming, "Mom get back in the car!!"
This was beginning to look sketchy for a good Saturday. Quickly things turned around. Was it good luck? or Pure determination, come hell or high water to have a good time with my children?? So our journey continued. We left Emma's apartment, went back roads to downtown Auburn, and found a great parking space, with a crack head, taking money for parking in his yard. Me, not so quietly, "Lock the car!!!" ( thinking of, good lord, now for sure, they will break in and do something!!! That crack head, just wants the money not the car, maybe he will want more money when we return!!! My mind will not stop!!!I have got to stop watching True Crime TV shows) So we three, Hart, Emma and me, walk and laugh and enjoy, the joy, that is in the air.
The colors of football rivalry in the South, at its best. Everyone believing that they can win, its intoxicating!!! We settled in an outside bar, with an enormous TV screen, fans screaming for their team. Hart and Emma visiting with all of their college friends, and me sharing this time with them. The fact that there was one, indoor bathroom, that did not have a flushing toilet, did not damper my mood. There were two outdoor port-ta-potties, for plan "B". Then there was the cigarette smoking!!!! Why are all these kids smoking, and who is paying for these cigarettes??? I had to have several conversations with these "young-ones" about how to put out a cigarette!!! If you are going to smoke, learn how to do it correctly!!and you pour beer into the ashtray if its not going out!!! I thought people were not smoking anymore, how can I watch a game, when second-hand smoking is sucking the life out of me???( Relax Bonnie, you are at a college football game, having a great time!!) "War Eagle", I AM watching!!! and do these young college girls have any friends, that tell them, NOT to wear leg warmers, and boots with a sun-dress!!!??? "Go Defense!!, and what is with the Amy Winehouse looking girl over there, eating a salad, taking up space, she is not even watching the game, take her home, she is texting!!! In fact all the girls are texting, it's the twilight zone. No one is talking to anyone, they are sitting around texting. No wonder they are all up there without dates, people like eye contact!!! For sure its, a different world, my kids world, that they so generously still want to be seen with me. It was a grand day! OK, maybe not when the boy was checking ID's at the door, and he waved me through, and I reminded him of who is most likely to pay the tip in this place!!! I have to teach them everything!!!!!

2 comments:

  1. THis is hysterical!!! Such a vivid picture :)
    WAR EAGLE!! I love a win, but why did I promise my students doughnuts if Auburn beat Georgia?? Gotta love a SEC weekend :)
    Leslie

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  2. Thank you.
    I'm just sorry My Gators did not give Cam's dad "More Money!!!"

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