Baby. I'm so with you. I almost clocked a woman in line at Target, b/c in addition to RUBBING MY ASS, breathing down my neck, and generally being annoying, she then had the nerve to lean on MY CART (where my purse is!)

BABE. Doesn't make the line go faster!!

AND, just b/c I drive a truck, doesn't mean I'm going slowly for no reason. Helloooooo!!! Just b/c you can't see the car in front of me, doesn't mean its not there!!!

(It's not just you, Purl.)

AND ANOTHER THING, I just *love* being first. Makes me feel spatial.

Well said Laurie. Have a very Merry Christmas. I will raise a few glasses to you and your wisedom. With your unending support to the masses perhaps you will tame america.

I was gonna keep commenting until someone else did. Guess Liz cut me short. :(

Amen! Happy Holidays!

Omigosh, my favoritist pet peeve is number one on your list! I can't tell you how many times I've been run over by people trying to get on when I'm trying to exit the elevator. Why can't people understand this simple procedure? "If you will get out of my way and let me off this damn thing, there'll be more room for you to get on!" Works without fail, every time! It's Magic!

One day, I'm just going to explode and tell off all these bozos.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. All things I wish we would all remember. Especially the perfume thing. I, too, am cursed with a strong sense of smell and too much perfume = me nauseated and grumpy.

Thanks for the good laugh. Have a great Christmas.

addendum to your note about the vehicle seating 8?

If, behind you, is a long empty bed of truck over 10 feet long... that could CARRY a f**in' compact car??? YOU ARE NOT A COMPACT CAR!

Phew...

that feels better, Thanks Laurie! I needed to get that off my chest for a week now..

AND A NUTHER THING, if someone slows down to let you in, GO! Don't just sit there looking like a danged deer caught in the headlights. No, wait. That's too cute. Like one of those superugly oppossums. ((shudder))

Maybe it's a Colorado thing too as far as the driving thing goes. Add precipitation of any kind (especially snow) and people think the roads are their own personal obstacle courses.

I get laughed at when I call the turn signal a "blinker" it's nice to see the term typed in public.

Why is Roy sticking his tongue out?

So well said. Happy Holidays;-)

Amen, Sister!! Can't we all slow down a little? Enjoy the pretty decorations, and not mug someone who got the last Bratsy Watsy Wetsy doll?

The coughing thing? That means your kids too! I was at the store, and watched this little one who was about 3 feet tall go coughing all the way down the aisle. I think she probably hit every single chip bag there was. Made me realize I probably only want to purchase things from the top shelf.

And Happy Winter Solstice to you.

Laurie, enjoy your time off. May it be filled with lots of wine, yarn and whatever else you want. Here's to 2006!

Love the list. Hope you have a merry Christmas!

Girl, you're preaching to the choir. Yesterday I was on my way to the ferry (and let me just say right now this is the ferry, NOT your living room, DO NOT take your shoes off!) when to my great surprise I was hit by a car while I was in the crosswalk. Apparently he was in too much of a hurry to look BOTH ways before hitting the gas, so he hit me instead! Merry Christmas! Really, listen to your Crazy Aunt Purl, slow down. Slow. Down. The line goes as fast as it goes, the traffic goes as fast as it goes, there's another elevator in, like, 4 seconds, the world still takes 24 hours to go all the way around no matter how big a hurry you're in. And cover your mouth! Love you CAP!

My British mom raised me saying "indicator" for turn signal. Oh the mockery I receieved in driver's ed...I have slowly conformed to the dull "turn signal" except in moment of driving rage (say when the jerk in the BMW cuts you off because you have a crappy car and thus are clearly too poor to fix their snaz-mobile if you get in an accident and so you have to do the submissive driving). My kids have caught me yelling "Use your bloody indicator!" ("Mommy, what is an indicator and why is it bleeding?") Sigh.

my van has blinkers too!!

Happy holidays to you, Laurie, the cats and all my fellow CAP-readers. May your days be merry and bright and filled with much yarn (your nights too!).

Come on back after Christmas and let us know what you did, ok? And it better include merlot and yarn!

Merry Christmas, Laurie! Catch ya on the holiday-flipside!

I am soooo with you on the perfume/cologne thing. I get nosebleeds when I'm cooped up with people who bathe in their scent. Isn't that a hint that it might be a little, um, Strong? You'd think...

I am soooo with you on the perfume/cologne thing. I get nosebleeds when I'm cooped up with people who bathe in their scent. Isn't that a hint that it might be a little, um, Strong? You'd think...

I agree with all of your points, especially about the part of remembering that you are in public. Please clip your fingernails in the privacy of your own home, not on the tube. And those marathon snogging sessions? Glad you're in love, but I'll take your word for it - no need to give me a graphic demonstration. Really.

Why is Roy sticking his tongue out at the camera? It must mean he is all cured, I hope!

If Roy and Soba can get along, why the hell can't we all just get along?

Happy Holidays, PURL! Have a lovely time off. :)

I feel ya, girl.

My plan for this year was that if I didn't have presents bought by Dec. 1, everyone was getting gifts bought online, because once the word "December" is in the air, people get all crazy, mob the malls on the weekends, and act generally crankified.

Gah!

9) If the Fire Alarm goes off in your building, and you are the Boss of the building, get out of the building. You are the Boss. Set a good example! Don't make the lowly Floor Warden threaten you and then worry about getting fired.

Yay for the "less perfume"!! Well, yay for all of them, really... but especially the "less perfume".

Have fun days off, and take lots of pictures so you can tell us all about what you did when you get back!

My volvo has blinkers...and isn't Roy's tongue cute! I call it "relaxing tongue" when my kitties do that.

I guess I better get out and get the gifts -- i took yesterday off and ordered just under $600 in clothes for my self from Eddie Bauer -- hey, they usually run out of my size, I couldn't believe it, so I felt obligated to buy stuff. I did get my dad a little polartech hat, however.

Okay...enough ramblings of an only child....

love to everyone....happy, merry, feliz and stuff

9)You screaming children need not be dragged shopping unless they are going to a Toystore. Newsflash, kids get bored in a matter of seconds and then they start inventing bad games that usually end in tears. Mostly others!

10)Cell phones have volume control! It is really not necessary to scream to the poor sap on the other end. Their ears and our blood pressure will thank.

I am also convinced that new cars do not come equipt with turn signals and some have signals that only work after you have already merged into the left lane.

I am with you this season Lori. I am dreaming of a white Christmas and after the white is gone, I will drink the red! Cheers

I will gladly follow all of those rules, and respectfully ask that others follow this additional one:

Please, please, please - when you get to the top/bottom of the escalator, keep going, do not stop and linger. It will cause a massive pile-up behind you, and could cause bodily harm. Same goes for revolving doors. I realize taht you have escaped into/out of the building, but the rest of us aren't interested in being trapped in the little glass space which reminds us of that scene in "The Godfather."

Phew. I feel better. Thanks, Laurie!

as always, you wisdom rings true. #5 sounds like practically every new england driver ever.

i wish you a wonderful christmas. i know you haven't been looking forward to this time, but it'll be over soon. take care of yourself. i'll miss you.

The No Turn Signal (Blinker) people have made me nuts since I was a wee young thing. My brother and I used to stand on the corner by our house and yell at people who didn't use them; we were 9 or 10 year old. Now I am reduced to yelling in my car, "Random braking! Random braking! What the hell are you doing!?" It doesn't help.

* Why are Roy and Soba such camera hogs?
* Amen to Darcey on her #10 for cell phones. I've gotten into the practice of stopping people who scream into their Nextels to show them how to turn the speaker off. Done it. Many times. Haven't got yelled at yet.
* #11) If you are not handicapped why do you get to park at the FRONT DOOR of the store? Are you really so fat, lazy and important that you deserve a parking spot 35 feet closer to the front door than someone without legs?

(I feel so much better now)

I was in line to get onto an airplane the other day, and the guy behind me was not only less than six inches away from me, but he was having a conversation on his cell phone! At full voice! Facing my head! I just wanted to turn around and say "You know, I can HEAR YOU!" but I didn't have the guts. [sigh] I wish those damn things had never been invented.

This is why I stay at home. Not because of any of the above, but the people listed above can't be bothered to understand things. You know, reading is beyond their simple comprehension. So is proper hygiene, thus eliminating the need to smell like a cow farm of Hugo Boss.

Also, people react to knitting needles in a way that gives you proper respect and space. just keep 'em out and visible. ;)

I feel you on the perfume thing. There are too many women that don't realize that just because they can't smell themselves anymore doesn't mean that they need to put on more of the stuff. Most perfume gives me horrible painkiller-resistant headaches, so being too close to someone like that isn't just unpleasant, it hurts me!

Amen to ALL!

And another angelic picture of sweet, innocent faces, like they aren't even up to something!

My kid learned her first bad word (try to act surprised) in the car with me when some guy didn't use his blinker. My stock reply, "Nice signal, assh*ole!" was repeated by my 2-year old, later on for my mother at the dinner table.

It was a lovely, family moment...

blinkers are meant to be blinked.

they should also be used when pulling over to double park, which really shouldn't be done ever anyway, but if you intend on stopping in the middle of the road, please do SOMETHING to let me know.

A T-shirt I saw once: Nice perfume, must you marinate in it? I once got trapped on a flight with a "scented person" that I found I was allergic to. What fun! And it seems that drivers *all over* are especially insane around the 'holidaze'...maybe there are subliminal messages in the piped in carols...

You are so right on with #5! I have the unfortunate privilege of sitting in LA traffic for 2-1/2 hours a day...and the lack of turn signals is one of my pet peeves; followed closely by the last-second-quick-blink-before-I-slice-off-the-front-of-your-car lane change that is so popular on the 101. And I can't count the road rage incidents I've had with those damn tail-gaters!!!! Hello, we all are trying to get somewhere!!!

OK, I'll take a deep breath now (I'm currently in a perfume-free zone).

Hugs!

My volvo has blinkers...and isn't Roy's tongue cute! I call it "relaxing tongue" when my kitties do that.

I guess I better get out and get the gifts -- i took yesterday off and ordered just under $600 in clothes for my self from Eddie Bauer -- hey, they usually run out of my size, I couldn't believe it, so I felt obligated to buy stuff. I did get my dad a little polartech hat, however.

Okay...enough ramblings of an only child....

love to everyone....happy, merry, feliz and stuff

Hear hear, well spoken Bruce! I live in Ohio, where NOT ONE SINGLE NATIVE uses their blinkers. If you see someone using their blinkers, you can bet on them having just recently arrived from another part of the world. (Can you tell I'm not a native? Hi Ohio! Love you! Just not your habit of non-blinker-usage. Otherwise you are a lovely and friendly state.)

Happy Holidays to all!

Am I the only one who calls 'em "tickers"?

Merry Christmas to all-we'll miss you when yer gone! (for x-mas break, that is)

Excellent list!

I'm with you on 'em all, but especially the perfume. The curse of the excessively active olfactory gland... on the up side, I do smell detection for friends. :)

All those things make me mad too, but seeing Roy looking well makes me very happy. Pass the eggnog. (You're supposed to put in equal parts rum, right?)

Happy holidays to you, Miss Crazy Aunt Purl and your bevy of feline sidekicks. Taking a few days off sounds grand. Drink wine, knit hats and stay strong!

Have a good holiday - hug your cats, drink some wine, block some stuff.

Have a bah humbugy Christmas! (only cuz you're sitting this one out.) Watch some great girly movies and knit.

Our family seems to call the turn signals, "tickers", now that you mention it. How strange! The one thing that I hate about my little car is that it has a wimpy little horn -- not very effective for scaring those crazy "luxury" car owners who seem to think that exclusive rights to the road were included in the rather inflated sticker price of their automobile. Now, let's all try to survive Christmas.

I used to live in a place where it was considered incredibly rude to yawn in public, especially without covering your mouth, but coughing and sneezing on people without covering your mouth and nose was no problem. Thank god I moved. I also saw people cutting their fingernails in the subway when I was there. Yuck. It was enough to make me want a car.

I hope you don't mind, but I think I will print this list out and hang it all around the town! Seriously someone should. I totally agree with all of it, especially the perfume thing...OMG I DO get physically sick!

My personal one is talking too loud on your cell phone. If I know more about your personal business than I do my own, then you are talking too loud. Yes, guy on the bus who works in the defense industry, who plays rugby every Tuesday and who is planning on having two kids within the next two years with his pilates teacher wife who is working on her Masters Degree in Sociology, I'm taking about you.

ack! the perfume/smelly thing reminds me of a job i had when i lived in atlanta. one of my coworkers bathed in cologne every morning. and every single day, without fail, he'd walk around the office and insist on hugging all the girls. the first time he did this to me, i stunk of drakkar noir for the whole rest of the damn day. after that, i avoided him like the plague, which upset him greatly.

nothing worse than reeking of horrible mens cologne before you've even had your first sip of coffee. my taste buds were shot.

I've been behind the people waiting to get on the elevator who have their noses on the door waiting to get it in (that's what those smudge marks are!). I blame Southwest Airlines for this behavior - it's like they're not going to get a seat and GET OUT OF MY WAY I MIGHT NOT GET TO THE NEXT FLOOR!!! Sorry, I didn't know this was the last trip ever for this elevator.

And for those of you with VW size strollers - LET ME OUT first THEN there will be plenty of room for you to get in and turn around. Ramming my shins makes me want to put a foot on your stroller and push!

I'm with you on #2. In fact, I forwarded your list to someone in my office, hoping that she forwards it to someone else, and so on. Maybe it'll reach stinky perfume lady and she'll get the hint, she is exactly as you described. I think you work in my office...I'm gonna go look for you now!

And isn't Christmastime stinkier than the rest of the year? All the overdone cinnamon-and-clove incense makes me gag. The Boyfriend is allergic to artificial cinnamon, so there are some stores we simply can't walk into around the holidays. Can't we celebrate the holiday of our choice without the olfactory assault?

Well said, Purl! Happy Holidays!

Julie - Not all Ohio drivers are bad. You must live in Toledo. Toledo drivers scare me. I live near Columbus where drivers are polite, use their blinkers, and let you merge. Even in rush-hour traffic.

I thought it was just the SF Bay Area that seemed to be under the effect of stupid holiday driving. I think it started around Thanksgiving and shows no signs of letting up till at least after the new year. A moron on his cell phone in his SUV tried to turn right from the left lane (and almost into my husband's car) a couple nights ago. *gah*

Are people so busy focusing on the peace, joy and love of the holiday season that they can't spare any of those things for their fellow human beings?

#(whatever we're up to now). If you are walking down the street in a group and your group extends from one edge of the sidewalk to the other, please, please, please, for the love of all that is holy, somebody please yield and allow an oncoming pedestrian to get by you. Do not make the poor slub risk life and limb by stepping into oncoming traffic.

Happy Holidays to everyone!

WHAT??? A few days off?? Is that allowed??

Today's post is like a public service announcement to all mankind. THANK YOU! I hope you have a wonderful few days off. We'll miss you! :)

Happy Holidays, Laurie! Thanks for being my hero. You absolutely rock.

Today's post is like a public service announcement to all mankind. THANK YOU! I hope you have a wonderful few days off. We'll miss you! :)

Amen to the entire list, with a special asterisk on the blinker and perfume ones, one of my personal pet peeves.

So glad you get to extricate yourself from the elevator and the building and the bus and away from White Guys in Ties, Inc. and get away. Enjoy!

Mele Kalikimaka!

Hmmm. In my office building, people are so SLOW getting out of the elevator on the ground floor (I think they get caught up reading the little information screens with the news, etc.). Then there is always ONE last person in the corner where I can't see them, who, just as I decide it's safe to get on, darts out and flashes me a dirty look as we almost collide. I always end up apologizing but secretly cursing them for being so slow. So on behalf of the elevator getter-on-ers, can the rest of you please exit speedily? Thanks.

Wow - how did you get inside my brain and list my thoughts for the world to see?? That's uncanny!

A few days off? I'm not sure that's fair to the rest of us for whom a day without you is not really a day - well ok it's a day but I really do enjoy you.
Merry Christmas anyway laurie. Thanks for making my year so much better. Oh and my 9 (Max, Mini, Melvin, Lennie, Squiggy, Paco, Sybil, Freddie and Frankie) semd their best to your 4.

Gosh, I agree with ALL of the above. I don't know if someone wrote it in one of their comments, but those people who suddenly forgot how to walk and just stop, causing you to plow into them full force because if one wants to stop, s/he is supposed to get OUT of the path and kindly step aside. But this happens all the time, not just around Christmas, I guess.

If ever there was any doubt, it is now official: I Love You CAP! Just because you are swell, of course, but today especially for: blinkers, elevators, personal space and public transportation. And blinkers (this deserves two mentions. Are they now making fancy new cars without turn signals? If you are too feeble to operate your signal, perhaps you should not be driving at all.) Simple concepts! I am not a rocket scientist; why are these so difficult for others to grasp? When you and I are in charge, Purl, the world will be a happier, space-ier, less stinky place. With more wine. Happy Festivus!

Ohio driver here, always use my turn signals. Haven't really noticed others not using them, actually. Except pick-up trucks. They don't put turn signals on pick-up trucks, didn't you know?

I am so with you on the perfume thing. Both that and people smoking in enclosed places, I view as a personal affront. Probably because both knock me out with a killer migraine. Just as no one else really wants to listen to your music, they don't want to smell your stink.

A bit to add to number 1. If I am waiting the appropriate distance from the elevator DON'T crowd in front of me then act surprised when the door opens and there are people wanting to get out. What did you think was going to happen? Did you think I was standing there to just WATCH people get on and off? I almost didn't get a spot on an elevator this weekend because of that, needless to say I was a little miffed!

I'm with you on all of it--plus, in Chicago, all the people with dark colored cars have agreed to leave their lights off in rain so they blend into the pavement!

Oh......staring at your tits is a BAD thing? So sorry. Who knew?

FYI- Humvees in Afghanistan don't use thier blinkers. That's what the machinegun on top is for.......

oh, the kitty photo .... it's like "ebony and ivory ...." in perfect harmony. i lacked the attention span to read tonight. i was captured, as usual, by photos.

I'm totally with you on the stupid drivers. Thank your stars that you live in LA - at least it's not raining. In NorCal, as soon as one drop of water hits the asphalt, everybody acts like they've been smacked with the dumb stick.

Another traffic rant: I hate people who drive all the way up to a freeway offramp in the lane NEXT to the exit and then cut over at the last minute (without signaling). That's why it took me 20 minutes to drive 600 feet tonight - damn people cutting in, causing a cascade of panic braking in heavy rain. &$@#*!!!

amen . . . and one more: If you're in line behind me in the grocery store, kindly stay in line with your cart until I finish paying for my groceries. Don't come up and stand six inches behind me while I'm writing a check. Trust me . . . it won't get you out of the store one second faster. Get out of my space, you . . . you . . .

Thank you, and Merry Christmas.

Amen to all that, Laurie. I fizz with fury when I see a commercial on tv for men's cologne which has the tag line "spray more" no, no, NO, for the love of sanity don't spray more!!!!

And combining two of your peeves, I really do not want to hear the lady on the bus holler down her cell phone that she has spots all over her body, even in her ears! Geez, I couldn't get off that bus fast enough!

Oh yeah, and with the coughing and sneezing thing. People, take a sick day, please. It's germ soup on the bus, and you'd think no one had heard of handkerchiefs.

And if you have children who scream/cry/rant/holler in public, take a minute and take him/her/them outside or deal with him/her/them in an appropriate manner away from people who don't need to suffer simply because you had sex without reading a book on parenting skills. Teaching them self reliance while you ignore their mega-decibel caterwauling is best done in your own home/apartment/car/trailer.

Just sayin'

Uh, um [sniff] there are some good Toledo drivers. Me, for instance. I always signal. A L W A Y S. It's the think that makes my husband love me. Blink, blink, blink - it turns him on...

And, Lee - my husband and I joke about turning into senile folks who do exactly what you did as a kid - stand on street corners yelling at bad drivers in a yiddish accent, "SIGNAL! Ya numbskull!"

My pet driving peeve are the drivers who feel that the left (aka, FAST or PASSING) lane is their own personal parkway. The poke along in the driving equivalent of a stroll while cars either stack up 10 deep behind them, or pass on the right (not good). Unfortunately, my husband did that when we first married.

I used to call the passing lane, "Gerry's lane" because he would just hang around in the lane, passing time, shooting the breeze. But now I think I've reformed him. 1 down, 8 million more to go.

blinkers = clicker

#695: don't stalk me in the store. I braved Walmart yesterday only to have this creepy woman follow me around the store. I walked past her and, because I am a Texan, politely said "excuse us, ma'am". A few minutes later I'm in the toy aisle, she's behind us. I go to get some soap, yep she's there too! Toilet paper, yup you guessed it! My son says loudly "Mommy that guy is behind us!" (she looked manly)

"run baby, run! let's get the hell out of here before she decides she wants to wear our skin!"

olfactory factory! i'm stealing that and using it somewhere soon. thanks cap!

I'm fed up of people sneezing on my commuter knitting.

Grit your teeth and say (or sing) it along with me: "It's the most wonderful time of the year!" If I say it enough, maybe I won't hurt anyone.

Blinkers. We have blinkers here in Oz. I've heard it suggested that rather than being called indicators (their other name nere) they should be called confirmators cos so many people start changing lanes, flick em on for 1.5 blinks and by then are actually in the new lane... so they confirm that they did a lane change.
So with you on the lift/train/tram/bus and the perfume stuff too. Ack.

I'm with Darcy on the screaming children and cell phone talkers.... but will add... If you have to blow your nose, use a damn tissue. USE A TISSUE!!!!

Love you! Have a great christmas...

Merry Christmas, Laurie! I, too, wish that everyone would abide by your rules of common courtesy. For some reason, the older I get, the ruder people get.

Thank you for keeping us all so entertained with your blog of antics (and even some knitting ;) )

And I am also a "blinker" person. Again, Merry Christmas to you and your adorable feline companions!

I call turn singals a "flasher". I love your list and I love the additions about kids and cell phones. I am from the city but now live in the country, so I am rarely bothered by traffic, kids, public transit, elevators and all that crap. But when I visit the city, I am flooded by memories and I start having a fantasy of poking people with knitting needles.

Sorry Annie - I didn't mean to imply that all Toledo drivers are bad. It does scare me to drive there, though.

(My husband is from Michigan and never uses his blinker. He's the one reading the newspaper and drinking coffee while driving 90 mph down the freeway.)

Growing up and to this day, we call a turn signal "Dinko" - I think for the noise it makes.

Purl - you have a holiday worthy of your wit and warmth! Smoochies to 'kids'. Here's to a wild and wonderful 2006!

Can I add chewing gum with your mouth closed? That's one of my top ten peeves of all time.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, LAURIE!

See ya on the flip side . . .

Does eating smelly foods at one's desk PRIOR to lunchtime (at like 11:30 am) count? If I have to smell my coworker's Chicken Rangoon for one more minute, I may give her a sidedish she didn't order!

Well said!

It's amazing how many people don't know to cover their mouth when coughing or sneezing. I can't tell you how many times I've been coughed/sneezed on my my co-workers. And these are Ph.D.s! You'd think they'ed know better. C'mon...just TRY a LITTLE.

here in north Georgia, a flasher usually involves a dirty old man and a trenchcoat! Amen to the above, I usually say, "we use perfume in addition to bathing, not instead of."
Happy December 25th, and a wonderful 2006!

Enjoy your break and come back soon CAP. Feliz Holidays to all the other CAP fans. Your comments have been equally entertaining. Especially you, haji-o-matic. Thank you for all you are doing for the Afghanistan people.
Lets all get along...
Peace out

Mornin'!
Just wanted to chime in. My daughter's 4H group has latched onto the Haji-in-Afghanistan toy drive and we're ready to box up about 30 pounds of toys. Thank you for giving us the cause connection. I know there are other ways we could have done the same thing, but this one worked out well.
Also, my father had "the watch problem". After a 1/2 lifetime of dead watches, he started buying thick leather cufs with these weird snap things that you could snap your favorite watch face to (after you've dismantled it from the old band). The protective leather blocked his superpower force like kryptonite. :) He also couldn't float. Weird.

Keep on living out loud!
Nona

Oh my goodness, you're *SO* on it right now.

The other day I was standing in line at the grocery store, and a woman leaned onto the very same counter (Y'know the one that's 6 inches long?) where I was attempting to sign my credit card receipt. I get it. She's next. She didn't need to stand directly in front of the cashier (and breathe down my neck) for me to know it! :P

Blech :P

Yeah BLINKERS!! Argh! I mutter under my breath about that every single day!!! Double Argh!

Oh well...laa-dee-dah...have a happy holiday, Sweetie!
Hugs!
L.A. Ell

Get a neat old pocket watch and wear it on chains/velvet ribbons as a necklace.

JayJay :)

My favorite holiday moment had to be when the giant gas guzzling SUV behind me leaned on his horn, as I waited for- truly- a person in a wheelcahir to get thru the crosswalk... Ah, yes, the kindess of man-to-man. And I work in a homeless shelter- and I could chill your blood with stories of what people dump on us at this time of year "for the women". Oi- used retainer, anyone? Yup, generosity is alive and well. Happy Holidays, Auntie!

I'm right there with you on the elevator gripe. It happens to me all the time at the metro stations (especially Beverly & Vermont). Oh, and let's not forget the Rugby scrum of people all trying to get through the bus door at the same time. Trust me, folks, the bus will not drive off without you. (unless it's the beret wearing driver on the #14 line).

How about the guy who feels the need to cut in front of you in bumper-to-bumper traffic just so he can be one car closer to the stop light...and he didn't use a blinker (jerk).

Hey Girl,
Well said, as always. Have yourself a merry Xmas, and the kitties of course. God Bless.

Here in the Bay area it is the crazy combo of holidays AND rain. One alone is enough to make folks lose all driving sensibility. I now have a fairly peaceful commute but I was struck by a brief bit of road rage earlier this week. I have to make a right off the freeway. Being the safe driver, I stopped at the red and then looked left to see if anyone was coming. Well apparently in those few seconds, the right turn light turned green. This is when the person behind me decided to lean on the horn. GET OFF THE HORN ALREADY!

Oh, and there should be much more use of turn signals.

Hopefully you have not felt the urge to set Sobakawa upon some idiot driver. (I think Sobakawa could cure these drivers of their issues.) Have a peaceful rest of your holiday season.

enjoy your well-deserved break...and thank you so much for eliciting belly laughs from me and my co-workers over your pages. Love it! Merry Christmas and to new beginnings that bring you much happiness!

happy happy holidays from me to you
and happy happy holidays from my feline babes to yours!
you make the Internets happy.

merry xmas!!!!

merry christmas to you and your kitties, laurie! xo

You crack me up so much! Happy holidays!

merry christmas!

i missed seeing you again! please call me if you want, i do not have work till january third.

I just found your site from a link on themutteringmuse.com and I'm glad I came here. That had me cracking up. I'm linking your site because this looks fun. I'm going to go explore the rest of it now.