Sunday evening musings, or any day

The kind of place where no-one minds when you call it crepe.

LOL. I wouldn't call it the way in that video anywhere.

I'm so gauche.

I went with just a ham and swiss crepe.
He had prosciutto and apricot jam

Then he was eyeing the blackboard and got the Crepe of the Month.

omg.
It was filled with fresh strawberries, a lemon curd mixed with pound cake, and topped with fresh whipped cream.

I had a 2 or 3 bites and it was amazing.
So so fresh.

The menu is also under plastic or something on the counter where you order, and you point and they record. They have an ipad type thingie where if you need to explain something, like no sugar in the ice tea, you can write it down.

I also have picked up group lunches there for my lunch delivery job, and they are all very efficient, and the place really really clean.

Marc Maron has a indie black comedy in theaters now called The Sword of Trust which has scored high on Rotten Tomatoes.

I think I put that on my list last night.

I was watching a youtube clip of maron last night. The following sums me up perfectly.
(as you know, he basically collects cats)

So I was walking up to my front door and there was this tiny little black kitten.
(encourages audience to say "awwwww")

Oh yeah, that would be the normal response. Mine was "F*ck. Now's there something else I gotta love."

wont be hard, probably a little bombay cross. They are jut the best cat. They talk, they listen, they follow you around, they type on the keyboard.

All fora little dish a kibbles or tuna

Oh yeah. Marc loves cats, you love cats, I love cats.

It's just "Oh f*ck. Now there's another one I gotta love."


We were standing in a line somewhere today, and Wally sez appropos of nothing, "you know? those were good crepes."

Damn.

I was totally channeling Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction at the Walgreens an hour ago.

F*cks given: zero

I'm standing there looking at items on a shelf, and notice a 3 year old boy with a balloon making his way towards me, no adult in sight. He made it halfway to me (I was near the other end of an aisle) when a man with a cart passed the aisle from where the kid came, and the boy turned around and immediately followed him. I thought "wow. I'll bet the kids mother wouldn't be happy with that. Oh well.", and went back to my business. A minute (or more) later, I walked toward where the man and boy had gone.
Then I hear a woman cheerfully calling "Calum? Calum?" I mean not at all upset.
We meet at the intersection of 2 aisle, and she's still calling "Calum?"

The kid then pops out of nowhere, from a completely different direction I'd seen him go with the man.

This woman was obviously his grandmother. But the type of grandmother with the facelift, shopping addiction, and who prefers to be called "Mimi" or "Gigi" rather than "Grandma"

We almost bumped into each other, and when I said "oh!" she looks at me with this kinda crazed look in her eye and said "OH HI!" Like she knew me or something and I was her tennis partner that she happened to run into.

The fact she had no idea for a Long time where this boy was alarmed me, and I asked. "Are you here with his father?"
Her: No, where' just getting Calum some blah blah blah...Aren't we Calum?

Calum is completely wandering off again.

I said "Hey. You need to keep him close to you. He was following a complete stranger around. You know how fast a child can be abducted."

Her, laughing: Oh YES! Thank You!

Me (thinking): ok crazy white lady. (I'm white)

So anyway for the 5 more minutes I'm shopping, I spot Calum at least 2 more times, always by himself. I'm thinking "If I'm keeping an eye on him, who else is noticing him too."

I go up to the check out, and guess who is just finished paying?
She's calling out "Calum! Calum!" Because little Calum is f*cking walking out the door with his balloon, into the night. Not a care in the world.
Woman is calling, but really not making any moves to rush after him.
Calum obviously is used to not paying attention when called, so he just continues out of site of the doorway. Woman then finally goes and gets him. But not to the point where she's holding his hand or anything, and he's just lagging behind, like he's obviously going to make another break for it.

I go all Jules on her.

You need to keep your child with you! That kid has been wandering all over the store. I told you he was following a stanger around. He could have been abducted several times just in this store.

She made a couple of false starts, probably considering the "Don't tell me how to raise my child" thing...but this wasn't her child. She finally came up with "Yea thanks. I have this covered."

Me: Well obviously you don't because we're both facing the boy and I'm the one noticing he heading out the door again. Are you just waiting for him to be taken by a stranger?

So now finally she does take note that little Calum again is out in the night and brings him back. Still not holding his hand.

She's steaming. I couldn't care less. She says "Everyone KNOWS children aren't abducted by Strangers. They're (continues on with god knows what)

At that second the woman behind me gives a little gasp, and I see that she's holding an infant.

I literally grabbed my head in disbelief and said "What? Good to know that stangers never abduct children. Are you kidding?"

She: I didn't say that.

Me: No. That's Exactly what you said. You need to hold onto that kid, because you're just letting him wander off repeatedly while you don't pay attention. I don't even pay attention to children and it stood out even to me that no one was monitoring him.

She left, I paid for myself and left. I see them walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the store, I guess waiting for someone.

She was now holding his hand.

All I could think of in the car ride home was how if he was taken, we all know what would happen to him....and grandma would be telling reporters how she had no idea how it happened.

If she's e suffering a medical malady she may be highly medicated which would explain her nonchalant attitude about Calum. Of course, this begs the question of: why whoever has custody of the child (parent/s or other guardian/s) not more aware and therefore not allowing her to take him places by only herself.

Scary no matter what.

Don't care about her.

Care about a 3 year old being sold into a child pornography ring.

Clearly. And that was one of my worries as well. Also 1he crazies out there who might murder him. Any time I see a child alone - which happens far too much - I am reminded of Adam Walsh,

Oh yikes, I see the faces of missing children in nightmares. Why isn't that a big priority for certain political groups??? Do We really need God on our money and yeah, we should have the 10 commandments in our courts, oh yeah, lets have children pray in school ...... and what the freep is going on with same sex marriage.

Abducted, molested children.....crickets. There isn't even a commandment against it, WTF.

When God supposedly sent Moses down with the two 100+ pound tablets, he/she/other was more concerned about "coveting"

I think about the thousands and thousands of children who have been taken since Adam Walsh.
Honestly? Knowing what would very well happen to a young child who is taken, how it would shatter them completely, the lesser of 2 evils would be if they were just quickly killed.

There is such a powerful underground market for child porn, the trading back and forth, unspeakable acts, I don't know how anyone who has a child that was taken could live knowing what was going on.

The link and exerpt below are just the results of one quick google search. Not even an extensive look.


Re that woman in the Walgreens. I don't think she had any illness. Based on her appearance and behavior, she was a well to do woman who is simply oblivious to the reality of the world.
She heard some sound bite along the way that it's friends or families that are the primary abusers, so she takes comfort in the idea that a stranger couldn't whisk a kid off in literally a second.

Her son or daughter would probably lose their minds if they saw how she was letting their kid wander from her. I know I did.

I think someone like her needs to be sat down with a law enforcement agent and shown what goes on. Pop her little bubble.

https://fox17.com/news/local/fbi-issues-sobering-statistics-on-child-pornography-in-the-united-states-dark-web

Among the eye-opening statistics shared, a Department of Justice 2016 report shows one website on Tor hosted 1.3 million images depicting children subjected to violent sexual abuse. Analysis of these specific files identified at least 73 new victims previously unknown to law enforcement.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimates over 26 million sexual abuse images and videos were received by their analysts in 2015 alone. Since 2002, more than 10,500 victims depicted in child porn have been identified by police.

One website on the dark web was shown to have 200,000 registered users and 100,000 individuals had accessed the site in just 12 days.

oh yeah, and don't forget putting aside the Sabbath, or taking his name in vain.

Much more important than "Thou shalt not sexually molest anyone, especially children."

There's no commandment against slavery either, which is what these children become.

No,Richard. That stupid bunch of hair on your lip and chin do not look "good".

It looks ridiculous. Maybe if you knew how to trim it evenly it would help!
It's almost as comical as when you were getting your hair dyed more yellow than a taxi cab and spending money and time in tanning booth beds 5 times a week.

(had to say it openly, it's been getting out on my last raw nerve)

((He's not a member here...or on any board))

That's what I'm talkin' about Sturgie!

Let it all out, man.

So what is the age of this Richard person?




Unrelated note, my phone just chimed that the used hubcap I bought on ebay arrived.

I am speechless.

I've been installing new roll vinyl flooring, this week. So, I've rolled out a sheet for the kitchen and cut it, after moving lots of heavy stuff. I stagger up to the sink, needing water to fight off dehydration, and I see a stranger standing in the backyard. "What are you doing out there?" He looks terrified. I quickly realize he is not invading, but is hiding. He climbs my flimsy wire fence, like nothing, and goes right over the water company fence, barb wire and all, the same way. He hides behind the water tanks for about ten minutes. I stand in my yard, baseball bat at my side, to keep him from wanting to come back. This whole time he looks like a hunted animal. He looks back and waves. I wave. Then he runs through the water company ground and again scales the fence. I'm following, telling him, "Don't come here." He throws himself flat, behind some water company equipment. Then he leaps to his feet and runs like a scalded hyena down the middle of the street. About that time, my neighbors come to the fence to tell me the man went through their back yards. I have no idea what was going on, but I did not interfere with him, because I had no idea if he was victim or escaping criminal. I just know I've had enough problems with the criminal element in this neighborhood without inviting vengeance from this guy.

Scary edgar!

Then this will really blow your mind.

The Otterbox I ordered came yesterday.