Two Strange Things I Saw This Weekend

1. A middle-aged hippy looking guy (not altogether unlike myself, right down to the big gut) walking around Wal Mart, wearing a snakeskin yarmulke. Here's one just like it...
http://www.skullcap.com/images/custom/dsd46.jpg

2. A possum walking slowly around the big transformer outside the restaurant where my son works, closely followed by a long-haired yellow cat. Neither seem particularly perturbed or predatory. In fact, if asked to describe the situation, I would say that they seemed to be pals.

Oh...and I also did something this weekend that I never thought I'd do. I paid $42.60, including tax, for a ten pound bag of cat food prescribed by my vet for my apparently food-allergic cat.

I didn't say I led an interesting life.

Subsequent searching for more information on the aforementioned piece of traditional Jewish headwear reveals this interesting fashion site:

http://www.designboom.com/trash/bse.html

Originally posted by Elspode
I didn't say I led an interesting life.

You went to Wal-Mart?? Damn!! That's more interesting than my average weekend.

Oh...and I also did something this weekend that I never thought I'd do. I paid $42.60, including tax, for a ten pound bag of cat food prescribed by my vet for my apparently food-allergic cat.

Hmm..time for Korean food?:)

lol a brisket yarmulke! i have seen everything!...well...alot anyway...

Originally posted by SteveDallas

You went to Wal-Mart?? Damn!! That's more interesting than my average weekend.

I know that isn't true. You post 3D photos and homemade pictures of Saturn on The Cellar, so you at least occasionally do something more interesting than Wal Mart. At least Costco or something.

True, occasionally. This weekend was highlighted by our first time going to a concert at Verizon Hall, a 50th-anniversary party (not for us, no, but thanks for asking), and my wife quitting her job.

But until Thanksgiving, Mrs. Dallas and I are both getting ready for our musical productions (that reminds me) and some other miscellaneous stuff, so weekends for me are mostly riding herd on the kids.

Edit: I went to San Antonio the last week in September. The 3 rolls of stereo film I shot are STILL hanging in my bedroom awaiting proper disposition in slide mounts.

Musical productions? Please, do tell...is there a singing and dancing side to SteveDallas that we don't know?

Originally posted by Elspode
Musical productions? Please, do tell...is there a singing and dancing side to SteveDallas that we don't know?

No. There is not. :shotgun:

(There might be a clarinet player somewhere.)

Here is a weird thing i saw a while back . My wife and i were at Wal-mart grocery shopping , i saw an old man ( 60+ ) with a grocery cart FULL to the top with nacho chips and velveta and salsa , as i walked by i said "Nachos !!!" in my best Bevis and butt head voice , the old dude smiled , looked around (to make sure no body was watching ) , pulled his tea-shirt on to his head , and did the BEST Cornholeio voice i have ever heard !!! I almost fell out !!!!

[COLOR=indigo]My weekend was:

Saturday: Playing Dark Age of Camelot with my husband. We made level 30 and 31, so he finally got to go to the battlegrounds. He was stoked. I talked to my kids (they were camping in Louisiana).

Sunday: We went grocery shopping at wal-mart. Didn't see anything kewl, tho. Mostly it was fat women in skinny-women clothing with screaming children.

I went to work and he went to the battlegrounds and got alot more Realm Points. He called his kids and I came home and went to bed, he stayed up til 3am.

That was our weekend.

Now, to be fair, next weekend we're going to the ECU open house for prospective students. I've been accepted, and we're gonna go tour the campus and attend the Financial Aid seminar. And Sunday I'll go to work. :S

We eventually want to do SCA on Saturdays, there is usually something going on somewhere every weekend, but alot of stuff is in VA, so we need the car is good running order, and he wants another car first, JIC.

But yeah. Life in E.NC. Yippee.
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I got to see a brawl at the Waffle House at 3 in the morning. :)

Originally posted by case
I got to see a brawl at the Waffle House at 3 in the morning. :)

I got to watch "Finding Nemo" about a hundred times. You suck. :p

It is hard to top a waffle house brawl. Damn. Did they use all the syrups?

Down in Atlanta two years ago, some friends and I were coming back from a Guster concert stoned off our asses ... of course we stopped in a Krispy Kreme store to get a few donuts.

There was this absolutely disgusting bum sitting in the corner, wearing long spandex pants, a pink t-shirt (I forget what it said, but it was a real sparkly '70s shirt) and a big brown leather jacket. He started by asking us if we went to the Prince (or artist formerly known as) concert and continued by detailing to us the history of each of the Jackson five.

BUt every time someone walked in or out of the door, he would jump up, dance around and yell, "Hah-haaah-haaappy easter! Rabbbiitt! Rabit! Happy Eeestuh!" (THe next day was in fact Easter)

I almost choked on a donut. IN fact, we were laughing so hard that we barely ate and gave the guy a couple donuts.

If you order the pecan waffle at Waffle House, beware...the pecans have legs.

The sign on the one up the street from our house had the "W" out for the longest time, making it read "Affle House."

That pretty well covers it, IMHO. Haven't been there in many years, not since I sobered up and didn't need to eat at 3 am.

Originally posted by perth

I got to watch "Finding Nemo" about a hundred times. You suck. :p

Is it tacky to have a "Finding Nemo" poster in the fresh seafood section of a supermarket? I saw this last night while shopping & thought it was amusing.

Originally posted by Elspode

The sign on the one up the street from our house had the "W" out for the longest time, making it read "Affle House."

Heh ... I think they're a NJ chain, but ever hear of Joe Canal's liquor stores? They just built a new one in my area.

I stumbled out of the Hooters next door one Friday night, looked up and started laughing hysterically. The "C" of Joe Canal's big red sign was broken.

Originally posted by warch
It is hard to top a waffle house brawl. Damn. Did they use all the syrups?

C'mon, you've been in enough of those to know you always go for the blueberry.

C'mon, you've been in enough of those to know you always go for the blueberry.

Well of course. First. But depending on the scale of the offensive, and your over all strategy... it never hurts to have a triggered pitcher of imitation maple for back up.

I used to be a Waffle House fanatic until one night in Southaven, MS eight years ago...got sicker than a dog and haven't been back since.

What the hell were you doing in SouthHaven Ms. Syc ????
I got flashed by a drunk chick in Corinth Ms in a waffel house once .

Went there while in Memphis just to say I had been in MS.

Where did ya go in Memphis ? I am origanaly from there .

I shopped at the Super Soul Shop in downtown Clarksdale, MS. Got a shiney double breasteed suit for Mr. warch, but he's too fat for it now. Too many damn waffles.

Originally posted by zippyt
Where did ya go in Memphis ? I am origanaly from there .

All around town for the most part...it was one of those spontaneous road trips my friends and I would do on occasion. Drove down from St. Louis, stopped in Osceola, AR to view the stars, got to Memphis, drove around downtown and Beale St., then drove down towards Graceland, into MS, ate at Waffle House, drove around some more, then drove back to St. Louis.

There is a KILLER BBQ place in Clarksdale , but Damn if i can rember the name ,, one of those off to the side of a side road places