behold... a Mole Cricket
and now... the Camel Cricket
The Mole Cricket is obviously the more macho cricket.
Larval Cicadas (This morning, I stepped on one by accident)
John Secada (never met the guy)
Posted on 09/16/2005 7:33:26 PM PDT by When do we get liberated?
Just wanted to share with some of you something that happened early this month. This requires some background. I have no liscense (Not a drunk, I just drive like aan idiot) and I get a ride 35 miles each way to work and back, 75% of the time by a married couple who have been friends of mine for several years. We were friends before they morphed into Michael Moore's stepchildren. The husband is more muted, certainly with the same belief structure but not as radical. The wife thinks it was wrong to attack Iraq...AND Afghanistan. The falling debris from the world towers should have been transformed into a shower of taxpayer funded aid missions. When we wander into politics I have to bite my tongue and keep the temperature down in the car or I may lose my friend and my job. There is no public transportation outside Raleigh, unless you count $130 a day in cab fare. Driving home one night with the two of them she starts telling me about her ethics class where she learned "moral isolationism" which says that nobody from our culture can say that anything is right or wrong about any other culture, because what they do is right in their way. We have not lived in that culture so we cannot judge, by any means, others to be wrong in any way. I shut up and ignored it as I knew it would be a long, irritating drive home if I did anything else. We got to my house and I flipped ibn the T.V. it was the anniversary of the Beslan School Massacre. I left it on for nearly a full hour until it was over. In detail the takeover, rigging of bombs to women, random killings et al. All told by the schoolchildren. One child somewhat calmy described his father's head being blown apart by a machine gun round after the terrorists blew the gymnasium apart without provocation. He remembers hoping that the terminator would come and save them. 40 odd minutes of that in excrusiating detail was truely horrifying to and human with a sense of right and wrong. When the credits rolled, I changed the channel and said, very calmly and soothingly,"Not that they did anything wrong there. They were right in their own way." .................................................................................................................. SILENCE FROM A LIBERAL
Ok, guys, I thought this was a very effective ending.
He listens to all this crap from his ride, he goes home and watches with them something about the massacre in the school, and parrots back to the people who were telling him there was no good or bad cultures, just what they had been telling him.
And they had no answer, because the evil was so clear.
Good first post. Some people just get antsy about things...especially when the person talking doesn't get into the discussion....makes you look like you're blog pimping (posting something you had written on your blog without any intention of talking about it. Considered something of bad manners here at FR).
Still, I liked it. Doesn't feel particularly trollish to me...you can have your own opinions.
That the poster has not since replied is a bit odd, but I just don't know if this qualifies as a zot worthy thread. Awkward as the story is written, try to re-read it. The poster seems to have twisted his liberal friend's words against her.
You should really learn to drive, if I can do it anyone can. My greatest driving feat to date, non-stop Boston to Bayonne, 5 hours flat with two teenage girls in the car chattering.
It can be done, just keep trying different teachers until you find the right one.
"True friends encourage it."
LOL!
Imagine my surprise. : )
Don't let them get to you.
"Mole Cricket"
They dig, and have sharp little front legs.
And they are uglier than anything on the planet.
Larval cicadas are prettier..
I agree. It's truly stupid.
It is odd that the poster has not replied. Could be s/he felt the post said it all and moved on.
I think I was expecting a different ending and that's why I didn't get. I wanted the poster to say this to the wacky woman.
(Sniffing possible ozone)
Some story-flow questions:
Why did the married couple accompany you into your house? Do you live with them or were they visiting? You didn't make it clear why they wandered into your home and stayed for an hour.
Why did they sit in your house silently for an entire broadcast of the Beslen massacre? You write as if they were like your furniture.
Did you offer your guests food or drinks? They are friends and they do make the effort to haul your rear-end to work everyday. A nice merlot would help the Mrs. as she stomachs the carnage.
Did you and do you offer to pay your fair share of gasoline money for all rides (3-5$ a day by my calculations)? And let's not forget wear on the car. They don't seem like bad people helping you like this.
Do you offer your friends gifts for their generosity, besides the gift of this post? You just posted their shame on the most popular website in the world. I think a crystal vase for the wife is in order.
What did you do to lose your license? You said you drive like an idiot and one infers from that statement you lost your license...by being an idiot. Apparently this point (being an idiot) weighs heavily on the minds of your friends as they lecture you.
behold... a Mole Cricket and now... the Camel Cricket
The Mole Cricket is obviously the more macho cricket.
Larval Cicadas (This morning, I stepped on one by accident)
John Secada (never met the guy)
I've seen four in my basement, so far. I also squished one that was hanging out on my porch. I squished it by accident (seems to happen a lot with me). My wife is frightened by them, though I am not sure what she expects them to do. And my daughter delights in watching them hop like mad as I chase them around the basement.
LOL, John Secada..
Good post
Proud graduate of the Hugo Chavez Cat Obedience School.
Good post. Unfortunately it seems that only two or three other people here actually read it. The problem is that you put "first post" in the title. Very few people here actually read past your title.
I also agree.
lol - I'm too tired to care!
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