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Because traffic is so ridiculously bad on our street, I drive Diana to school in the morning so I can get to work before 9:30.

Friday morning, I get into the 'drop off line' along the side of the school. Instead of getting in the back of the line like everyone else, someone idiot pulls up to *almost* the front of the line and stops IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. She then opens the sliding door on the side of the van facing the road (not the side facing the school) and lets the kids pile out. Now, I'm boxed in by the car stopped (rightly so) at the front of the line while dropping of their kid and by the idiot in the road who's back bumper is lined up with my front tires. Now, the schmuck behind me in line (you know who you are, moron), decides to pull out from behind me and go around the mini van parked in the middle of the road. Unfortunately, Darwinity did not ensue.

So when I got home, I called the County Sheriff (we don't have town police here) and reported the traffic situation. They sent an officer to my house and I filled him in on what happened that morning (No, I didn't rat out anyone specific - as much fun as it would have been to see a County Sheriff pay them a visit) .

The side of the road next to the school is marked 'No Parking' and the school has asked that people not park there, but to form a line starting at the corner and pull up along the sidewalk and only stop long enough to drop the kids off (i.e. - NO PARKING!! DO NOT GET OUT OF YOUR FREAKING CAR AND DISAPPEAR FOR 10 MINUTES!!) But self important @ssh*les, don't think the signs apply to them, so they cut in line, stop in the middle of the road, or pull in line and then get out of the car (bringing the line to a complete stop)

The officer said that even though it is marked 'No Parking', 'Standing' is ok. When I asked what the difference was between 'Parking' and 'Standing', he said that people who park long enough to walk their kid into school and come out five minutes later are only 'Standing'. Which renders the whole 'No Parking' signs USELESS!

Any suggestions??

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Seen on a bumpersticker

"My Greyhound can out run your honor student"

...whaaaa?

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I just read this news story on cnn.com about ' Internet Hunting ' . Supposedly, this guy in Texas (*are you surprised??*) is going to set up a remotely controlled hunting rifle on his hunting ranch, which can be accessed by anyone via the web.

First off, understand that I'm not a warm and fuzzy-PETA-type person. My father was a hunter, mainly deer. If he shot one, we were eating deer meat kielbasa for the next 6 months (Good stuff!). So don't bother starting a massive flame war on my blog about control. Gun control is 'hitting your target'.

Anyways, this 'Hunting via the web' has got to be the dumbest idea that has made the major news sources. Which brings up the likelyhood that this is just a big joke like that 'Bambi-hunting' thing that was supposedly happening a while back in Vegas (don't ask).

Can you imagine being the poor schmuck working on the ranch who, after the 'web-deerhunter' makes a kill, has to go retrieve it? He better hope that internet hunters are smarter than some of the local hunters you read about in the newspaper on the first day of hunting season ("It was his own fault he got shot, driving around in that brown car with the white license plate"), or he'll be next on the virtual bullseye.

What also kills me (no pun intended) was this little bit of info which unfortunately gives you a clearer understanding of this guy's thought processes.

"The idea came last year while viewing another Web site on which cameras posted in the wild are used to snap photos of animals.

"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head," he said."

Um, hello??? The first thing you think of when you see an animal in the wild is "SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT!" ????

Remind me to never visit Texas.

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