Ok, I understand it’s probably their first time away from home. But that is NO excuse for what I saw, no, what I SMELLED this weekend at my local Walmart. I’m standing in line surrounded by smelly people. I mean really disgusting, BO people. Lots of them. I’ve never experienced anything like it. Then it dawned on me. These were all college kids. Most had their carts full of school supplies and stuff for their dorm rooms. Is this “not showering” thing some kind of new trend I don’t know about? Is it suddenly cool to smell like a combination of smelly socks and burnt hair? Is this just me pushing 40 and looking and the next generation the same way older folks looked at mine?! I really am at a loss as to why there were soooo many STANK kids that day.

     A friend of mine told me a pretty scary road rage story that happened to her on the way to work recently. I think we’ve all had someone cut us off, or flip us the bird over some silly implied “wrong” that happened to them. But when a person gets to the point of actually getting out of their car to confront somebody, that’s another level of crazy.

      I remember one time a few years ago I was leaving Winton Plaza and there was a minivan with a mom and a few kids in the back. One kid who could not have been more than 5 or 6 flipped the bird to the guy ahead of me. To say I was shocked when he got out of his car was an understatement. We were all in line at the signal light when this went down. He didn’t walk up to the mom to tell her what was going on behind her back, he was simply acting crazy. Banging on the doors, trying to kick out the window. What was he going to do, beat up a first grader? This guy was a ticking time bomb if something as silly as that was going to set him off. Thank God he didn’t get into the van, but he sure tried….and he sure was distracted too. Distracted to the point that he didn’t notice me get out of my car and lock his door. Oh, the keys? Yeah, they were in the ignition with the motor running. I was pretty sure the lady was on the phone with the police so when the light changed she got the hell out of there. I pulled into the gas station and waited for the cops as this idiot was trying to get back into his car. One of the responding officiers said when they asked him how he got locked out of his car he told them something about trying to help an injured bird that was in the road. I’m not sure if he ever got in any real trouble over that incident but I bet dealing with the police scared the crap out of him and hopefully made him think twice before pulling a stupid stunt like that again. I really doubt it but hey, I live in my own little fantasy world.

      Have you heard of Twitter yet? It’s basically a blog…a microblog. Kinda cool if you have a bunch of people that you’d like to keep in touch with as a group. Think of it as instant messaging that you can do from a computer OR your cell phone. The differnce is the messages must be short. Why would you want to do this?! Well, I can think of at least one good example. Lets say you and a bunch of friends are headed to a concert. You know they are there, but you haven’t seen them yet. Instead of texting or calling multiple people you send out one twit message saying “I’m at the t shirt booth. Come say hi.” I can see how this might be fun, but I can also see drunk people sending out messages at 2 in the morning that say “wuuuuuuuu!!!” I’m reading and seeing all over the place that “twitter” is the next best thing. Is this TOO much information? Are you on twitter yet? Think you will be anytime soon?! If you sign up, I’m listed as “billykidd925″ Click here to find out more.