The Mall

Today, I spent in Knoxville at the Mall, and while I was there got myself some vanilla cappuccino from Starbucks and watched the most recent Fast and Furious movie which was a little more hard-to-believe than some of the others, although, the special effects were not so spectacular as they were well done...

As I walked around the inside of the Mall, I realized that I was mixed in with a group of visitors, none of which had their facemasks, and none of whom I saw as any particular color other than Americans...  yet, I am sure that there were plenty of black, Hispanics, and Mexicans all around me.

Nobody looked out-of-place or that they did not belong there...  I saw males, females, families, and people who were by themselves.  I saw people that were well dressed and those who looked like they had spent the morning at the lake.

The whole time that I was at the Mall, I was thinking about why I did not want to be WOKE and why I did not particularly care for Critical Race Theory...  because the ones I was around were just a bunch of different people who wanted to spend some time at the Mall on Sunday.

While we were walking my wife was surfing the web and all of a sudden blurted out, "did you know the richest actor in Hollywood is a black person?"  My first thought was brought brought that about...  but, all I said was, "no shit" and continued walking?

But to myself, I was wondering why all this fuss about blacks being suppressed by whites...  and, then I wondered how I would have done my job if I had spent my career in law enforcement...  but, I was a teacher and spent my career in front of all kinds of people...  some were smarter than others and some did not want to talk, and some could not write well, but they were all students trying to make a better life for themselves.

Since my coffee was gone, we decided to leave the Mall and return home and spend the evening enjoying whatever it was that we wanted to do...  like watch a Korean movie with sub titles or post articles to a blog.

Isn't this the way is supposed to be in America?

Stupidity Does Not Run In The Family

It would be extremely safe to say that my elevator does not stop at al the floor and/or that my toolbox is missing several critical tools.  In short, I am an idiot's idiot...

AND...  why do I think that?

Simply put:  it happens to be true.

Now...  while I can pour piss out of a boot with directions written on the heel, I possess little if any common sense...  which seems to be a little more critical than simply pouring piss around.

Ironically, I was taught how to build and repair computers back in the late 1990's early 2000's and did quite well at that technical assignment as I recall for at least 12 months...  but, here recently, I cannot seem to find the common sense handle.

One could say that it is twenty years later asshole, of course you have misplaced a little common sense...  but, I fear it is not that simple.

We were recently returning from an outing in Virginia and after we stopped for gas, I turned on the lights but the dashboard lights would not come on.

After screwing around trying to figure what the shit had happened since the damn things were working perfectly before we stopped, I concluded that there was an ELECTRICAL problem and since we had only 30 minutes remaining, that I would simply drive without dashboard lights.

The following day we made an appointment with Toyota in Knoxville instead of Toyota in Morristown just to make sure the technical work was done the correct way...  assuming that Knoxville's technicians were better trained than Morristown's.

I drove down to my appointment which is on the other side of Knoxville about 45 miles one way.  My Car Care Provider came to my car and I lowered the window and explained the problem.  He thought for a second or two, maybe less, and asked if he could get in.

I stood outside the car beside him with the door open and in less than 15 seconds found the dial that corrected the lights for the dashboard whether the driver wanted them bright or not so bright...  he turned the dial and the FRIGGING DASHBOARD LIGHTS CAME ON...

I REST MY CASE!!!