Tube City Almanac

November 10, 2004

Rant, and the World Rants With You

Category: default || By jt3y

What is it about college students, that they feel the need to step off of curbs in front of my vehicle and cross against the light? Do I look like the sort of fellow who's inclined to swerve? Do the vehicles that I drive look like they respond well to evasive maneuvers? Well, they don't.

I need to mount a cowcatcher on the front of the bleeding car. Or else some giant "Nerf" bumpers.

Also, what it is about microwave popcorn that there's no threshold between "popped to perfection" and "burnt to a crisp"? All I wanted Tuesday night was a tasty snack. The directions say to put the popcorn in for two to three minutes, and when the popping slows down, take it out of the microwave.

I followed the directions to the letter and got butter-flavored charcoal briquettes.

And the smoke! I fried up hamburgers and potatoes the other day, and didn't smoke up the kitchen nearly as bad as one bag of microwave popcorn. Plus, the stink clings to everything. I finally took the still-smoldering popcorn outside and doused it with water before dumping it into a garbage can.

Ahem.

OK, so if those are the worst things that happen to me, I suppose I'm in pretty good shape.

Things could have been much, much worse, after all. I could have been these guys:

Toxic fumes inside a septic tank of a Lapu-Lapu City resort overwhelmed and killed two people who were cleaning the tank Saturday afternoon. ... (Senior Police Officer Rolito) Jumao-as said the wastewater inside the tank was already knee-deep when the nozzle of their draining hose got blocked.






Your Comments are Welcome!

Well, it’s nice to win something (maybe?) for a change. My wife (she’s the Fair City native) and I already got matching People’s Building T-shirts, though we haven’t both been back at the same time long enough to wear them together there. I like the choice of the trail. This ties back in to the story you quoted a couple of months ago about the couple riding through on their way to Ohio and getting lost once past Boston. Some route signs along Walnut Street would be a big help. A good friend, Bill Metzger, has been working on the trail project for years (I believe he now head up the PA Rails-to-Trails organization). They recently moved to Confluence. He has advanced MS, but still manages to get out and ride regularly.
Deane M - November 12, 2004



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