AndeeCreative's Blog

Had some wings delivered tonight.  I shut the door and watched the guy walk back to his car so that I could be courteous and flip the porch light off once he was safe inside his car.  So, he just stands beside his car, faced away from me, with his hands at his crotch for a minute.  Once I realize what he is doing, I whipped the door open, and I don't think he even had the donkey back in the barn yet.  I said, "Dude!  Did you just pee in my driveway???"  He turns around, stares at me for about 5 seconds, and says, "Sorry.  I had to go real bad".  I swear, he sounded just like Napoleon Dynamite, he was that freaking sincere (not).  I chewed him out, and yelled that my kids play in my yard and driveway, then slammed the door and turned off the light.  He might as well dropped drawers and took a steaming BOOGEDY in my driveway while he was at it.
I called Pizza Hut, told the manager, and explained to her the myriad of diseases that can be spread via urine.  Told her I wanted the store owner to call me back, and that I expected this douchebag to be fired.
What would you do?  What is wrong with people?  Why aren't parents teaching their kids right from wrong so that they can grow up to be responsible young adults who have respect for others' property???

People, we need help.

I know it's not as big of a deal to those who live and work in the city, but for those of us who live in the rural communities outside of KC and commute, these gas prices are absolutely crippling. My husband drives 50 miles each way to City Center Square everyday where he works. He drives a Toyota Yaris to get great gas mileage. Still, with the gas prices increasing, this takes a huge chunk out of his salary. There is a threshhold in everyone's budget where they can't break even with transportation expenses--and I fear that some people in hourly jobs will see that before the year is through. I teach classes at a scrapbook store in Liberty. I have to drive a gas-hog minivan because we have 3 kids, a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan. It costs me approx. $15 in gas for each roundtrip, which depending on the amount of people in my classes and the payrate, sometimes I don't break even. The gas prices are going to eventually cost me my teaching job there.

Some will say, "You should live in the city, then", but when you think it through, that's an asinine response. We'd be thrilled to live closer to the city, but the reason that many of us live in small towns and commute is for economic reasons in the first place. Houses are cheaper outside the city in small towns. And should everyone live in the city? No--that would cause more overcrowding.

Consequences of high gas prices:

• Can't break even on money making opportunities
• our children suffer because we can't afford the gas to take them to educational or sport events
• businesses suffer because they are losing business from rural patrons
• American families cannot afford gas to take vacations
• we WILL see an increase in prices on groceries and services due to transportation costs
  
• Increase in credit card debt for those who buy gas with credit cards and can't afford the increase
  

 

We need help from our government. What we need is to end our dependence on these terrorist nations, realize that they are impacting our American way of life here at home, and DRILL ALASKA. Yeah, I'm willing to risk the carribou. Screw the treehuggers, we have to grab this problem by the balls and get it under control--our American control! This is the one significant import that we cannot function without. Please write your congress reps and voice your concerns--take our homeland out of the grasp of fuel terrorists.

Go here to find your local congress contact info.

So, our Kansas City has bowed down to Muslim taxicab drivers' demands for foot baths (for washing their feet before praying to Allah) in the taxi drivers' restrooms at the airport??? Why did my husband hear about this on the Michael Savage talk radio show instead of from our local media? Why is it being kept on the down-low? I'm flaming mad, where's my cross at the airport? Why are we bowing down to their demands to accommodate their religion above all others? Is the airport authority afraid of what they might do if they say no? What have other people heard about this?

Here's an article about it.

I find it very ungrateful and rude that ANYONE is knocking Pizza Hut, complaining about kids being awarded for reading with free personal pan pizzas.   LAY OFF.  We should all be singing Pizza Hut's praises for the millions of dollars they spend each year, in dedication to such a worthy literacy cause.  People want to change the way kids are awarded--guess what?  Pizza Hut is the one that initiated this whole project, and I don't see anyone else stepping up to the plate!  Lets say that Subway offered a literacy award to kids--are your kids going to get excited about a friggin' Jared-esque sandwich?  Because if they put what they really wanted on the sandwich, the sandwich would be almost as bad for you as the personal pan pizza!  What kid doesn't want mayo on their sandwich?  A Subway sandwich enters the unhealthy zone with one squirt of the stuff!

Besides the ungratefulness to Pizza Hut (great example there for the kids, by the way), do we really want our kids to think that pizza is all that evil?  I have battled with obesity and have won.  I lose 110 pounds last year.  And I still eat Pizza Hut pizza!  Had it Sunday!  It's all about eating in moderation, and there is nothing bad about the portion size of a personal pan pizza, in fact, it would help in teaching your kids about portion sizes!  Even my skinny 4 year old ate more pizza than is in a personal pan pizza on Sunday to get full! 

Personal pan pizzas are a good thing--and a great reward for our children to work towards.  Telling them that there's something wrong with them will only lead to bad eating habits in the future!