Possumblog

More like "Poof goes the Paycheck"

And it's the 66¢ that really hurts.

The problem was that I wasn't expecting everyone to need new glasses. I was thinking more along the lines of exams for everyone, and maybe having to pay around $300.66 or so. Imagine my surprise. A little here and a little there certainly adds up, even at Wally World.

Oh well. No more eatin' out on Sunday afternoon for the rest of the year.

And yes, the 66 cents was insulting, but not nearly so much as the 900 dollars.

My first approach to a bill of that size is to take a nap.

Mine was to jump up from my chair and scream, "WHAT!?"

Now, hon, that's a reaction, not an approach.

Just think what the bill might have been had you gone to another place.

You knew something like the vision improvement bill was coming soon. It always does when you start a Moron Project. The apparently good wiring harness was just to lull you into a false sense of security.

Good point, Miss Janis--I suppose my approach when facing such a thing then, is to panic. With extreme prejudice. And you are right about the cost--the reason we started going there is because we spent nearly a thousand dollars about five years ago when Reba and Ashley went in to a well-known eye doctor here in town (with his own eyeglass shop) and I am yet to be convinced Ashley really needed glasses at the time.

And yes, Larry--the proof of a Moron Project is how much needful spending arises the moment after sinking money into the project. ::sigh::

I need to sell a van.

Terry, I feel your pain. It seems that there must be a law that the demand for money ALWAYS expands to soak up the supply of money--and particularly when said supply might have allowed a little "discretionary spending".

While I am not REAL happy with MY Wal-Mart glasses, I have to say they DID save me a good bit of money on them, else MY supply of money would have been drastically reduced a few years ago when I had to get two pairs.

We always go to Sam's for our eye needs. Justin tried ValuVision for his last appointment, because our insurance covered about $10 of the exam and they are closer than Sam's, and he was surprised to discover that there are places much worse than Sam's and Wal-Mart. They measured both his eye shape and his prescription incorrectly the first time.

Fortunately, at this point he's the only one with bad eyes. I shudder to think what our bills might be otherwise. Which is why I keep resisting getting my eyes checked.

If nothing else, this whole experience allows me to dust off my favorite saying: "'I see, I see,' said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw."

Ninja/terrorist possums are jumping out of black helicopters on unsuspecting motorists and all you can think about is the cost of eye care?
I feel like Steve McQueen in the The Blob . Am I the only one who sees this for what it is?

LOOK! A NINJA!

Ssssh—I’m listening for them black helicopters.

I read the elegy, too.

Apparently, the sunroof was in a Lexus.

So what do we have? A tremendously fat possum? A really long drop? A fast driver? A substandard sunroof?

OK you think I’m way off about the ninja possums. Well what if the thing found at White Lake wasn’t an armadillo at all but a robopossum?

Oh--sorry, Jim. BUT THERE'RE RIGHT THERE BEHIND YOU! RUN AWAY!

Miss Janis, I would say a combination of the first three, combined with a moonroof not designed to handle the highly improbable occurence of raining marsupials.

Jim--everyone knows there's no such things as robopossums. And if there were, don't you think I would tell you?

Trust the head possum? Not likely. If there are not robopossums then maybe the armadillos are heading north to take over from the possums. So the possums can be training for the invasion.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
I’m still working on where the badgers fit into all of this. I think the UN and the Trilateral Commission are involved somehow.

Silly Jim, I would never tell you a fib. There are no such things as robopossums, and I don't care WHAT Lyndon LaRouche says. He's just wrong--at least about this particular thing.

LOOK! ILLUMINATI NINJAS!

::throws tarp over robopossum::

There's a few too many ninjas around here and not enough badgers. Some folks seem to have gotten a bit hoi-polloi since they left us stragglers on the wrong side of Blogger.

Incidentally, can I nominate our resident engineering NASA type guy to figure out a few things?

A) The coefficient of drag on an airborne former possum; B) the mean descent rate of said late mammal; most importantly, C) the proper angle of attack for said expired marsupial to interact properly with the sunroof of an overpriced Toyota.

The rest of us can figure out on our own if it was an African or Caribbean possum.

You say hoi polloi like it's a bad thing...