Thankful

'Tis the season for giving thanks and all that, and so I wanted to jot off a post about just that. Although, after the evening

What a Crappy Night

So.

I get out of work early for the Thanksgiving holiday, and I'm happy as a clam. I've got a shopping list that Meg just sent me to get a few things at the grocery so we can "be prepared" for some family guests staying with us and to prepare a little somethin' somethin' for the big T-day meal we'll all be going to tomorrow night.

I have to walk about 10 minutes to get to the parking lot my car is in, and it's raining, so I'm a little wet when I get there. I get situated in the car, dry off my glasses, open my diet coke and place it in the cup holder, turn the ignition, and NOTHING.

Approximately 6 hours earlier I was saying to myself as I pulled into the parking lot:
"Remember to turn off the lights."
"Remember to turn off the lights."
"Remember to turn off the lights."

I forgot to turn off my lights.

While I do like my little 1994 Honda Civic hatchback quite a lot, THE MOST ANNOYING thing about it is that it does not give you a warning that you've left your lights on. I've drained my battery 3 times in the last year because of this.

Thankfully, I found a police officer nearby and he is able to give me a jump, and then I'm off.

I get to the grocery store and the lot is packed and it's a zoo inside. They're flat out of pie crusts and cranberries (Meg is not going to be pleased). I wait in a very long line, check out and I'm heading out the door. It's still raining a little out. As I approach the cross-walk, I see a White Hummer slowing down.

I proceed into the cross walk.

I look over and notice that this Hummer isn't stopping.

I jumped back from the path of this TANK and the TANK crashes into my shopping cart and knocks it over.

I stand there trying to look into the passenger side window to get some recognition from the driver that he/she had just knocked over my shopping cart, but the woman behind the wheel pauses for just a second, looks the other way, and CONTINUES TO DRIVE!!

I am stunned.

She goes a TANK-length or more with my shopping cart under her TANK before she stops.

I run up to the passenger side door, yank it open and go BALLISTIC on her.

She apologizes.
She says she looked both ways.
Some guy starts to help me pick up the food that is now strewn under her TANK and behind her TANK.

She tries to explain to this by-stander that she didn't see me or the cart.

He replies (beautifully) "Of course you didn't see the cart, your car is too damn big."

I'm cursing at her and slap a busted yogurt in her hand.

I explain to her that she needs to mover her TANK so I can get the rest of my food out from under her TANK.

She pulls away.

And I am thankful that I wasn't run over by a Hummer this evening.

Please believe me

I am generally the most pacific person you would ever meet. Losing my temper twice in one week like I have is an extremely rare thing and very unlike me.

Honest.

close

I've had, it's a little hard to be chipper, I was so enamored by the long list of little things that Jill over at navigum posted today, that I decided to copy her (and believe me, I had to use a lot of restraint not to plagerize several from her list, e.g., flannel sheets, Nephrons, friends of friends, mitochondria, and the sound of foriegn languages). And I agree, the whole health, family, and friends bit is so last year, it's ridiculous. (But I AM very thankful for them too).

So here are fifty little (and not so little things) that I'm thankful for:

1. Jorge
   
2. ergonomic keyboards
   
3. rainbow trout
   
4. bike lanes
   
5. batteries
   
6. new music
   
7. Megan
   
8. coincidences
   
9. clementines
   
10. ING Direct
    
11. my guitar
    
12. The Amazing Race
    
13. Keen sandals
    
14. manual transmissions
    
15. thermal underwear
    
16. hot showers
    
17. Accucheck softclix
    
18. my green and red lunch bag
    
19. national parks
    
20. power tools
    
21. laughter
    
22. DSL
    
23. paid vacation
    
24. skis
    
25. color schemes
    
26. Comcast On Demand
    
27. Sage Firefox plug-in
    
28. Diet Coke
    
29. public transportation
    
30. The Beatles
    
31. PB&Js
    
32. my slippers
    
33. my orange hat
    
34. dental floss
    
35. Elements of Style
    
36. guacamole
    
37. sleeping bags
    
38. Auto Hotkey
    
39. sand
    
40. almonds
    
41. digital cameras
    
42. nalgene water bottles
    
43. multi-vitamins
    
44. clipless bike pedals
    
45. regular expressions
    
46. silly salutations
    
47. numbers
    
48. socks right out of the dryer
    
49. my backpack
    
50. ordered lists

I hope you all have a very happy holiday.