I walked out the door this morning to go to my health club and it was beautiful. 65 degrees. Sun shining. Light, light breeze. Wait! What is this? Little white fuzz balls drifting around everywhere. Then I remembered, God created cottonwood trees to shed millions of white little floating blobs to clog our car radiators, rest on seats of open cars and cling to screen doors. I think it is God’s sense of humor lest we forget snow is only 5 months away.
What is a “touareg”? Grasshopper No.3 is driving a brand new touareg. It sounds like a beer keg with tires and a steering wheel. Actually it is a Volkswagen station wagon. It comes with a V6 turbodiesel. Imagine that! It goes fast and gets great mileage from the diesel. I’m told that 42 miles per gallon is possible on the highway. The road excavation business must be really good.
Okay, now a little about R E S P E C T. A former football player, Chad Johnson (who changed his name to Chad Ochocinco and then back again) was in court because he had violated his probation on domestic violence. He had “head butted” his wife and was in danger of losing his freedom. He was facing 30 days in jail. Ochocinco is an arrogant, self-righteous sports star that thinks he is above the law. Ochocinco appeared in court with his lawyer and had reached a plea agreement to do community service and avoided doing “hard jail time”. As Ochocinco was leaving the court, he patted his lawyer on the ass. The courtroom erupted with laughter making a mockery of the whole event. The female judge wasn’t amused. She slapped Ochocinco with the original sentence. 30 days in jail. Yep, jail time. Good for her. It wasn’t about being funny or wanting attention. It was about respect for the woman he head butted. It was about respect for the court. It was just being a little bit sorry for what he had done. Jesus! Is that so hard? Good for the female judge. What is sad is that Ochocinco still “won’t get it”.
There I feel better. I got to do a rant on treating people with human decency. I get sick and tired of the glorified, rich athletes being treated different from you and I.
I’ve got to get me a ride in one of those touaregs.
Love,
Dad