Silly little things that happen in life.

[Pappy]

Staying at Sleep Inn, in Staunton, VA, tonight. Traveled a little over 500 miles today. We are on the third floor and that's my silver car below.
We were following a truck with some porta potties today on I-81 and somehow, door may have opened a little bit. A stream of toilet paper came flying in the wind. We were laughing at the situation when the roll ran out of paper. Yep, it came right at us and wrapped around the front of my car. Here we are, 65 mph and paper streaming out from both sides of my car. I told my wife, people will think we are newly weds. So, I pulled over and Thelma cleaned off the front of car. From 2016 coming back to Florida.

 

[WheatenLover]

My best friend and I were taking the kids camping for two weeks. Four 9 & 10 year old kids, one 100 lb dog, 2 adults. So we had to put a Rubbermaid plastic bin on top of the SUV (it had next to no cargo space). I'm rolling down the expressway in Western Mass, and I saw that the lid had peeked open and tons of straws were flying out of the bin.

I learned 2 things: It is better to have a container designed to carry things on top of the SUV; and never let the kids pack the straws. No harm was done to anyone, except that I was totally embarrassed while I waited for the next exit to arrive.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Years ago, brand new Interstate 84 went from Boston, Massachusetts westward. I was driving home to Pennsylvania. There was a bad snow storm. "84" hadn't officially opened, yet, But you could drive on it. There was a bad snow storm.. The snow is piling up. And there was no other car for miles, except the guy in front of me. He had a bike strapped to the back of his car. One wheel was spinning clockwise, while the other was spinning in the opposite direction. The wheels had reflectors attached to the spokes, so they went around, and around, and around, and around. Since he was the only other human on the road, I wanted to keep up with him, but the spinning wheels were hypnotizing me- and making me sick. I followed that guy through two states. Moooaaannnnnn!

 

[Paco Dennis]

One of our cats sneaks in to my room to eat the left overs from feeding our other cat. ( They compete too much if fed in the same location ). Last night I fed them around 1a but I thought one them was in Misa's room so her bowl was not on my floor. Norman comes sneaking in to eat what she left over but there was no bowl. He searches around real stealth like for awhile and then finds a small leaf tracked in from outdoors. He crouches down and sniffs it, and the proceeds to eat the whole thing. I was in a pretty funky mood but for some reason that was so funny that I started LMAO.

 

[WheatenLover]

Now I'm thinking of silly things. Like the time I had put the kids to bed. They were 3 or 4 years old. I was in my office, drafting an appellate brief. It was 9 p.m. My husband wasn't home from work yet. All of a sudden, a little green monster jumped into the room. My son had covered all of his body (and hair) with green acrylic paint.

Another time was the night my sons slept in their toddler beds for the first time. I made sure the room was empty of anything they could get into. My husband and I went downstairs to read. I noticed that there was complete silence from the boys' room. I said we should check on him. He said we should just read. Ha ha. I went upstairs a little while later, and the boys were jumping all over the room, having a great time. They were covered (and so was everything else) with Vaseline. It was even in their hair (which took days of shampooing to get out). It was on the walls, the furniture, and the bedding.

Now who would be so stupid as to leave a huge tempting jar of Vaseline on their dresser? Me! I couldn't get the jar open and it had never been used, so I figured it was safe. Nope. And what was the Vaseline for? I have no idea. I don't recall ever using Vaseline.

Yet another time, my husband and I awakened at 2 a.m. by the sound of one of our sons screaming bloody murder. Turned out that two of the children had gone downstairs and found where I had hidden glitter. It was on top, way back, of our huge refrigerator. The children had never climbed anything in the house before. Well, one of my sons and my daughter decided to climb around the kitchen. They found the glitter. They poured it into screaming son's eyes so he could see all the pretty colors in his dreams. Glitter comes off nothing easily, and this includes eyes. We are now a glitter-free family.

Then there's my dog, Aidan. My daughter put his canned dog food in Corelle bowls for a couple of days last week. Every time she fed him, he would carry the bowl into the living room and lay it on the rug before he ate. I guess he did that because he could. His regular stainless steel bowls are in a thing that lifts them off the floor. (Can't remember what it's called.) Thankfully he didn't spill any food onto my beloved area rug. Either way, Aidan's antics are nothing compared to have 3 or 4 year old triplets.