Most of the people that I work with are woman.  So, when I go out for lunch, I usually have it with women.

Over the years, I have made some observations.  If I go to lunch with only one woman, we will talk during lunch.  If I go to lunch with two women, the two women will talk and I will not be included in the conversation.  If I go to lunch with three women, the women will talk and I will not be included.

But, if I go to lunch with four women, three of them will talk and exclude me.  But, they also exclude the fourth woman.  So, the fourth woman and I end up talking.

Now, if I want to talk during lunch, I make sure that the number of women are 1, 4, 7, 10 etc.  And, if I want to eat and not look like a loser, any number of women will work.

The gays and lesbians at a local university are asking for co-ed dorm rooms.  With this arrangement, a gay guy would share a room with a lesbian.

I think that this is probably not a bad idea.  In theory, since these two are not hetero sexual,  there shouldn’t be any problems.

But, you kind of have to wonder if living together might not awaken some interest that has been suppressed.  I mean, people have been known to change their sexual preference.  And, these folks are certainly at an age where they are still discovering who they are.

Plus, if you are gay/lesbian, you probably won’t fit in well with hetero sexual room mates any way.  You can do the “don’t ask, don’t tell” for a while but sooner or later the room mates will figure it out, particularly if you are caught peaking at them in the shower.

It is a difficult situation no matter how you look at it.  But, letting them live together might be the solution.

I saw a young woman at the store the other day.  She had something on her nose just behind her nostril.  At first I thought that it was a crumb.  Then to my horror I thought “booger”.  This was followed by wart and finally jewelry.

I have seen more and more women wearing this type of jewelry.  It is a very small ball either silver or gold, I can’t tell.  Unfortunately, it is so small that it could pass for a blemish or something from a misguided sneeze.

I guess if you are going to make a fashion statement then wear something a little bigger and discernible.  Other wise, people will think that you have a hygiene problem.

My wife recently purchased a new denim jack for me as my old jacket was getting too small.  When I  unwrapped it, she announced that it looked huge and probably wouldn’t fit.  Unfortunately, it fit perfectly.  I guess this means that I am …..

A few weeks back, the phone rang late on a Sunday afternoon.  When I answered it, the voice on the other end said, “Hey Dave, your team got smoked and you owe me a case of beer, buddy.”  I said “you’ve got a wrong number.”

He laughed and said “Ya right.  Don’t give me that.”  I said, “No seriously, this is not Dave.”

There was a moment of silence on the other end.  Then he said “Hey buddy, you almost had be going there.”  So, once again I said “This is not Dave.”

Then the voice said “Come on Dave, buddy.  You owe me a case of beer and you know it.”

Finally, I was starting to get annoyed with this game so I said “You’re right.  I lost and I do owe you a case of beer.  Tell you what, why don’t you come on over?  I will throw some steaks on the grill and we will have a party.

The voice on the other end said “Great.  I will be there in 15 minutes.”

Well, the caller never showed up at my door and I can only speculate as to what happened with Dave.  Oh well, I tried.

The other Thursday, when I went to the GR airport to pick up my sister-in-law Karol, I found that she was already off the plane and waiting by the baggage claim carousels.  Unfortunately, nothing was happening.  Then, after what seemed like an eternity, the lights started flashing, the buzzers started buzzing and the belts started moving.  Great!!.

When the first bag came out of the shoot, there was a crowd waiting for their luggage.  But then, one by one, all of the bags disappeared along with the crowd.  All except for us.

There we stood, waiting, looking at the empty carousel as it went around and around hoping that that one last bag would pop up from down below.  But, it didn’t.

Finally, when the carousel stopped turning, we concluded that her bag was not going to arrive any time soon.  So, we stopped at the counter and filed a lost bag complaint.

By Friday morning, her bag had been located.  It was in Philadelphia but they were going to send it to GR right away.  So, we waited and waited and waited some more but no bag.

When we returned home at 11pm, there was a message on the answering machine.  The bag had arrived in GR but since they don’t make home deliveries after 10pm, they would get it out to us first thing in the morning.  Great!

At 1:30am, the phone rang.

Now, calls at that time of the night are always unsettling.  It is either bad news or some drunk calling.  So, I was apprehensive when I answered the phone.

But, to my surprise,  it was the luggage person and he announced that the bag would be delivered in the next half of an hour.  And sure enough, at 2am, the bag was delivered to my door.

I guess when the say first thing in the morning, they are referring to am and not daylight.

My refrigerator has a built in ice maker and water dispenser.  So, it is directly connected to the cold water line in the basement.

To make sure that the inner workings of the frig don’t get plugged up, at also has a built in water filter.  And, in  theory, this water filter should be changed every few months.  But, since the city has its own water filtration system, my water is very clean.  Thus, I change the filter every few years.

Well, when I was in Best Buys the other day, I noticed a display with water filters on it.  So, I bought a new one for my frig.

Replacing the filter is pretty straight forward.  Give the old filter a quarter turn and pull it out.  Push the new one in and give it a quarter turn and you are done.

But, when I installed the new filter, there was a noticeable drop in water flow.  In fact, you could die of thirst before you could get a glass of water from it.

Thinking that the new filter must be defective, I bought another one.  But, when I installed the second one, it did the same thing.  So, I decided that it must be a design flaw.

Now, the flow rate was totally unacceptable, so I decided to remove the filter completely.  However, when I did that, nothing changed.  So, I concluded that it must be a problem with the water line itself.

So, we examined the plastic tubing looking for kinks.  But, everything looked fine.

Next, I disconnect the tubing from the main water line and checked the flow.  It was unacceptable.  When I looked in the end of the connection, I could see that the whole thing was blocked.  So, I removed the old connection and replaced it was a new connection and the water worked just fine.

I just don’t know why the flow dropped when I changed the filter.

I went through the drive through at Burger King the other day and ordered my usual Whopper Jr..  When they handed me the bag, I noticed that it seemed misshapen.

Upon arriving at home, I opened the bag and discovered that not only was my Whopper Jr. in the bag, there was also a package of mini cinnamon rolls.  At first, I thought that they had given me someone elses’ order.  But, when I checked the receipt, which was stapled to the bag, it showed only a Whopper Jr..

Oh well.  I ate my Whopper Jr. and gave the cinnamon rolls to my granddaughter.

I was at Meijer (regional grocery store) the other day when I spotted a black bear.  But wait, it wasn’t a black bear at all.  It was a fat woman wearing a full length black fur coat.

What was she thinking?

While sitting in my dinning room the other morning, a hawk flew into my sliding glass door.  The hawk seemed unharmed and it immediately flew away.

Now, this is the first time in all of the years that I have lived here that a hawk has hit the glass.  So, I have to wonder why.

Did it see its reflection in the glass and think that it was another bird?  Did it see the cats on the other side of the glass and think that they would be a taste treat?

It is hard to say why it hit the glass but, I think I know why there haven’t been many birds on my feeders lately.