WOMAN TRAMPLED IN SALE FRENZY
A mob of shoppers rushing for a sale of DVD players at Wal-Mart trampled the first woman in line, and knocked her unconscious, according to the Sunday Los Angeles Times. "She got pushed down and they walked over her," said her sister. The woman was found unconscious on top of a DVD player.
I was young once and underfunded, and I know what it means to get the toy du jour, or the 'teen hot item' but, at a price, for my child at Christmas. Yet, even though I was young and combat ready, I never competed en masse for hard goods. Especially on rainy days, when umbrellas were involved.
Tottering through a flea market is dangerous enough. Young women use children in strollers to clear their paths, men stand around with hands on hips with sharp elbows to keep one at a distance. Historically, this stance is used by all males to increase body space. People with breasts know this, and by God, the guys can have the air around them.
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I am easily made anxious, even frightened, and when I got an E from "wordofmouthconnection" saying someone was researching my background I had to breathe into a paper bag. At first I though John Ashcroft was on to me for being a blog bomb thrower, which I like to think I am. But when I thought about the legions of Bush hating sites that regularly dismantle the man, and leave the parts lying on the ground, I dismissed it. Then…I thought about identity theft, and someone clearing my bank account down to small change, and was on Google this A.M. before coffee. Found out it is a scam. To replace this free-floating anxiety, I now have a pain in my right side, almost in the lung, where I heard a pop when I reached high up in the closet under the stairs. Am wondering, off and on, if the MRI's at my hospital are the new open ones.
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I will not click on any link anymore, anytime, anywhere. Not since I got the swen virus. I had an earlier one, also contracted on Microsoft's Explorer. What will happen when just an opened E transmits a virus? The Explorer automatically opens the first highlighted E. That's just great. One has no choice. From the beginning, I have approached my computer like someone circling a ticking package.
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Oh, and I almost forgot. As I hit "delete"The Explorer helpfully opened just long enough for me to see a huge color photo of a woman giving an anonymous penis a blow job. It was waiting for me first thing on a morning when the sun was shining and the birds were singing, and I was thinking well, maybe life is o.k. after all, and perhaps I'll write a little inspirational poem and blog it. There is a dearth of inspirational poetry now.
On the subject of sex, which comes before shopping, and just after food, I have in my exhaustive files a review of a book written by a woman in her seventies who is croaking about all the sex she's getting. One whole book about her splayed on a bed or whatever, and getting her fair share. I am not charmed by old folks having sex, and I don't like the visions it calls up of knobby knees, and sagging breasts, and withered balls and wasted butts, churning up the sheets in a sweaty lather. Actually, the act isn't all that attractive even when practiced by the young and nubile.
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The Noble Warrior in the White House has announced (no picture so I couldn't see how he was costumed this day) that he will soon start messing with Social Security. You young couples who still have jobs better get ready to start sending more than just a monthly stipend to your folks who are living on Social Security.
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