In an effort to promote business, Meijer (regional grocery chain) offers a credit card.  Besides getting  $.05 a gallon off of gas,  they encourage users to buy their merchandise and charge it.  But, if you don’t pay off the balance at the end of the month, there is a 29.9% interest rate.  (Isn’t this called loan sharking?  Oh wait, it is below 30% so it doesn’t apply. )  And, if you are late on a payment by only 24 hours, they tack on an additional $40.oo late fee.  Nice.

I only us my card for gas and I always pay off my balance at the end of the month.  I certainly can’t afford to keep a running balance and I certainly can’t afford to be late. 

I wonder what poor people do?

A lawyer for the Attorney Generals’ office in New York has been suspended for her part time job.  The woman was a Dominatrix.

Now, the Attorney Generals office was not so concerned with the nature of her part time job.  They were more concerned with her failure to report it.  I guess there could be a conflict of interest between being a lawyer and a Dominatrix.

“Monas’ Bondage Emporium, Whip me, Jerk me, Beat me, Hurt me.”

Arkansas police are on the look out for a man who is approaching women and asking if he can suck their toes.

Well OK.  Let me see if I understand this.  Unless toe sucking is illegal in Arkansas, the man has not committed a crime. And, since he is asking for permission first and respecting the answer, there is no personal violation.  So, what is Arkansas going to charge the man with?  Being kinky?

Hey, I don’t make this stuff up.

For a number of years, KT barbeque in Reading Ohio has had a well  endowed department store mannequin,named Bar Be Q, standing outside of  it’s restaurant.

But, a couple of years ago, city officials declared Bar Be Q to be indecent because she was only wearing a bikini.  The city demanded that the owners of KT needed to put a shirt on her. And after much haggling with the city, Bar Be Q now wears a dress suit.

Annoyed by all of the fuss over Bar Be Q, the owners of  KT decided that Bar Be Q should run for mayor.  Well, I guess it stands to reason.  When your city is run by dummy’s she should fit right in.

Some space junk is about to impact the Earth.  But, the scientists have told us not to worry because there is only 1 chance in 3,200  that anyone will be hit by it.

1 in 3,200!!!  Those are not very good odds!  Not very good at all!  In fact, I may stay inside until that thing comes down.

I wonder if I am insured for  something like that?

Have you ever considered Donald Duck?  He is a male with an obvious anger issue.  And, he has three nephews that live with him.  Where did they come from?   What happened to their parents.

So, what kind of role model is Donald suppose to be?  Are we to learn from him that males have anger issues?  Does this mean that females don’t have anger issues?  And why doesn’t he have pants while Micky does?

These are the things that keep me awake at night.

I went through the drive thru at Micky Ds this week Wednesday and ordered a medium black coffee.  They told me that there was “no charge”.

Thinking that this was some sort of “senior” “no charge” I asked if this was a daily event.  They told me that it was only for “today”.  Well OK I guess.

I wonder if there will be free coffee next week Wednesday?

In the past, Burger King had the honor of having creepy TV commercials.  Now, that honor has been taken over by Arby’s.

Unlike Burger King with its’ creepy mascot, the Arbys’ commercial features three guys eating their Arbys’ sandwiches.  When one of the guys gets a little “sauce” on his face, another shoots out an animated long tongue to lick it off his face.

EEEEEEUUUUUUHHHH!

Well, since the price of gas was down and I had a half of a tank, I decided to fill up on my way to work before the prices went up for the weekend.  So, I pulled into Meijer (regional grocery chain) to fill up.

$3.77 per gallon.  Not bad.  Certainly better than $3.89 from Monday.  So, I slid my Meijer card into the pump for an additional $.05 per gallon savings.  I then pushed the “grade” button and inserted, squeezed and locked the nozzle.  And, since I had bugs on my windshield, I decided to give the windshield a good cleaning.

When the windshield was clean, I looked at the pump and noticed that it had stopped at 10 gallons.  I quickly did an MPG calculation and determined that it was right where it should be.  So, I removed the nozzle, closed the cap and headed on my way.

But, as I went on down the road, I noticed that my fuel gauge still read only a half full.  Is my gauge not working?  Is it just slow?  But, the more that I drove, the more that I noticed that the gauge was going down.  Hum.

So, I then began to wonder if I had really pumped any gas at all at Meijer.  Maybe the 10 gallons on the pump was from the last guy.

Regardless, I still needed to buy gas before the weekend jump.  So, I stopped after work in Lansing.  $3.47 per gallon.  Great!!

Now, the pumps at Meijer in Lowell quite often mis-start and fail to pump.  And since I put in 12 gallons in Lansing, that mis-start saved me $3.00.  🙂  Way to go Fred (Meijer)!!!

There is a red menace invading this planet.  No, it is not from Mars, it is from the ocean in the form of giant King Crabs.

Marine Biologist are afraid that these monsters, some of which of up to 3 feet in diameter, will over run the oceans.

Well, I share their concerns.  So, in an effort to do my part, I will keep a pot of boiling water and some drawn butter ready and waiting for the red hoards.

I wonder if I should stock up on Alfredo sauce?