My Musings For The Day

I wondered down to Cabela's to buy a tent today. Cabela's is fun to visit but I rarely buy anything. The prices tend to be too damned expensive. Anyway, as I was driving there, I noticed two elementary school buses were passing me at near blinding speeds. It was like watching twinkies jump into warp speed. Just yellow blurs passing me as I was going almost 85 mph. I wondered, "Where could they be going in such a hurry?" The cynical part of me suggested that it was the states smartest kids getting rushed into hiding while a murderous Noah's Ark-esque rain storm lurked in the near future. Save the smart kids, drown the assholes!

When I finally got to Cabela's I noticed that the buses that passed me were parked up front. You have got to be kidding me. Our school system cannot be so broke [or ignorant] as to think that Cabela's is a remotely educational field trip. Maybe the bus drivers were just pulling over for a break; and the kids are actually at Thanksgiving Point learning something relevant.

Nope.

The kids were all lined up at Cabela's. When I walked into the store, (walking through the crowd of obnoxious 10 year olds) I must have had the obvious readable look on my face that said to the world "this is ridiculous." Sure enough, the greeter at Cabela's saw this look on my face and commented "You think this is ridiculous, don't you?" (He read my mind!) I just kept walking and replied. "Yep, I sure do." As I was walking, my back turned to him, he hollered back "But the kids are learning about nature!"

I chose not to engage that man in conversation. I would have made an ass of myself arguing with a redneck Cabela's store clerk in front of a horde of kids and adults. If I had no common sense however, my obvious retort would have gone along the lines of:

"The kids don't need Cabela's to teach them about nature when the whole state of Utah has a million state parks in their fucking backyard!"

As I walked around, the kids were just being shown sale products to tell their parents about. There was nothing educational about it! Why go to Cabela's of all places? If you're trying to teach kids about nature for cheap, national parks are free! Hikes are free! Skinned knees are not a liability!  Kids without their parents and knives, guns, steep stairs, elevators, and a million pointy objects are a liability. Kids act different without their parents or strong supervision. We all know this to be true. A lot more shit can happen in a smaller time frame. It's a sad education system we got going now.



While I was at Wal-Mart picking up a cell phone car charger, a fat girl who was probably around my age was talking to her friend. I overheard her say:

"I'm comfortable with how big I am. My thick body is beautiful. After all, men like meat. Dogs like bones. I'm just saying, that's the truth."

I thought this was pathetic. Even though that's what she said, what I really heard was:

"I'm too lazy/too dumb/too unmotivated to go to the gym and eat healthy. I would much rather not change my disgusting eating habits because that's a lot of work. And work is hard. This is my way of lowering my standards and not changing anything. Plus, this helps me justify anything I eat from now on without worrying about how I look. Statistics be damned, I don't mind living 20 years shorter than everybody else."






I'm just saying, that's the truth.


Fer' real.