FRIENDS LIKE THIS?

FRIENDS LIKE THIS, WE ALL HAVE HAD ONE OR TWO


I know most of you have or have had a friend that thought you should follow them anywhere. Just because we are friends you should.....  take your pick of you should.  They open their mouths  and your name comes out for whatever the reason that friend wants or has to say, right?  And you are standing there with that dumb look on your face and wondering how you were going to get out of this one or how did I get into this or why. Yes, one of those friends, I have had my share, especially after I graduated from high school. Let me tell you, high school was a dream compared to the outside world. All sorts of folks out there. 

I had this particular friend back home in Mississippi. We had met at work and hit it off. We started hanging out together and she, especially when drinking, had a big mouth. One of those open mouth and insert foot. This  night, she had a row with a guy and off we flew with her screaming and screeching and me telling her keep your eyes on the road or pull over.  Well, we had come up on a car with other girls that looked like they were, not the type of girls we hung out with, nicely. They had their music up as loudly as we did and my friend had to either do a finger gesture of she opened that big mouth and pursuit began.  They chased us up and down Green Street off Green Street and into town and back and all the while she is hollering and honking. Now, by this time, why? She's yelling and I am yelling, getting no where fast when all of a sudden my friend takes a sharp turn into a parking space of one of our friends apartment building. I guess her thinking was if she turned quick enough they would not see us. Well, how that work out for us?  They were right on our tail, screeched into the space next to us and my friend couldn't or didn't get her door shut fast enough, the driver of the car ran over pulled her out and a few blows were thrown. Me and the others were still inside the cars telling them to stop and let it be. My friend and this girl were just yelling at what? Nothing, because my friend didn't know what she had done to cause this and the other girl was mistaking her for someone else. Me and another girl from the other car, finally,  got them to stop yelling and go to their perspective cars and go our own ways. 

Well to make a long story short. My friend gets mad at me for not going out and helping her. What on earth for when you had it covered and she wasn't mad at me, I didn't do anything. Your mouth again and your welcome.  See, one of the other girls and myself, remedied the situation to which those two were yelling and screaming and running around trying to keep the other from doing too much damage, it was funny, actually.  She goes into this rant of what friends are suppose to do for the other and if she asked me to jump off the bridge I should.  Nope. See to be friend's with Kimberly was a chore within itself, she was rich, entitled and her parents couldn't keep much track of her and she did as she pleased until the fun wore off. 

What to do with one of these type friends if you survived? Well, as I saw it there was more good in there than mischief and when she wasn't partying hard, she was actually a decent sort. So, we worked it out and stayed friends for a while until she moved.  We have to wonder with friends like this if it's worth it or not. It's up to the individual to weigh and do a check list, but for me, she was worth it for time, long ago.  


Just a thought.

Thanks, 

WHERE ARE REAL BLUE JEANS?

I have searched and searched but cannot find any real jeans... Where are they?  

Gone way of the dodo bird, I am guessing. 

Everything these days are made with that stretchy material that call themselves jeans, to me, NOPE. They call them many things as Skinny Jeans which by the way, where did they get skinny-- these aren't making skinny anything but a wallet. Have you seen the price tags to some of these so-called jeans these days and with holes already in them? Outrageous.   Then you have the booty jeans-- what in the heck do they put in them? Seems like some of them make that booty go up and say hello to the back. I don't know about you, but I don't  think the booty should be talking to the small of the back.  And then we have keep your tummy flattened jeans.  mm huh, glorified built in girdle if you ask me and by the time you get them zipped/buttoned you fill as if you are wearing one  (girdle) in those stretchy pants. And what about those skinny things cropping off at the ankles?  You might as well wrap yourself up in a full length girdle and take scissors to the ankles, you probably would get a better fit.  Don't get me started on the different sizes, nightmare.  

I don't like these pants/jeans whatever you call them. You best have the strength of Sampson to pull these dang things up most days and by the end of the day, you've got droopy drawers if you are one not to wear a belt.. That's another thing, why call them skinny fitting jeans when they are anything but.. By the end of the day, they are riding up where they ought not  to and pulling down where they shouldn't. I don't know about you but I have worked long and hard keeping my butt from meeting the back of my knees and I plan on keeping it that way without the help of these "skinny stretch things". 

Whoever came up with these, I have to wonder. Where are my "REAL" no stretch, no booty, no belly flattened jeans.  I want my old good fitting Levi, Lee jeans back. I can't find these old jeans anywhere. I love putting on these old jeans and feeling like a real lady/woman not a pushed up pulled in facsimile of what I am or should be. 

Are you with me ladies? Rise and make a stand for the good old fashioned blue jeans. 

No thank you to these "skinny" jeans, give me my old Levi's any day. 

Just a thought, 

Thanks, 

KNEEL OR STAND?

TAKING A KNEE

To those that kneel, I would like to pose a question to you. Why are you kneeling for some social injustice you feel has been put upon the masses? When you can take a stand for those that sacrificed for you to be where you are today.

Why not with all your millions help those people in your areas you feel are being ill served? Why are you not working with those that you say are doing the said "injustice" to those masses? 

Those that yell the loudest generally do not want to fix anything, just make noise. Hardly, ever about wanting to make a real difference but to get the masses whether for or against in an uproar. Just bring attention. 

Why don't you instead of taking a knee, take a stand for those that sacrificed for you? Take a stand for that single mother or father that may have worked more than one job and not eaten or bought new clothes in order to help you be that one. Or that grandparent that sacrificed their time and love for you to be that one. That police officer that showed you kindness and helped you along the way or that teacher that stayed late to give you the guidance you needed. What about the preacher that pounded love and tolerance and forgiveness to you.  All these and more have sacrificed time and energy into giving unto you a path that made you who you are today.  

It will be best served to stand for those that gave you soo much instead of kneeling for some cause that you could change or help change with some tolerance and time. I know many will say, we have to make a statement for social justice, right? The Flag and our Country has nothing to do with "social justice" it's a made up term for those trying to change our lives. Yes, there is injustice but it's not social, it's on both sides black and white, but this is not what I am talking about...  it's taking a knee to disrespect (whatever/whoever), I am trying to ask why not take a proud stand for those that are looking down or in that stand or at home watching you in whatever you do and show them the respect on the sacrifice they made for you.  

Just a thought...

Thanks