Pet Peeves

One of my biggest pet peeves is parents who don't parent.

Case and point: Today I went to Subway for lunch. In front of me was a father and his two children who had to be around 6 or 7 yrs old. While he was telling the sandwich maker what to put on each sub, his children proceeded to climb onto the approximately 2 inch ledge and lay on the sneeze-guard glass while hanging onto to the top of the afore mentioned glass.
(see small wooden ledge in picture below)

What did the father say to these children? Nothing. I waited to see if the employee had anything to say like, "The health department requires the you do not lean over the top of the glass," or how about "the protective glass was not engineered to withhold the weight of 2 children and if they fall off that 2 inch ledge we cannot be held responsible for any injuries." NOPE, no one said a thing. Seriously, if you are not going to pay attention to your children....DO NOT HAVE ANY.

Karma

I have decided there is no such thing as karma...there can't be. Why???

1) My Boss
As I have mentioned I work in a small restaurant. The man who has owned this place for the last 30 years and runs a cater business with it too, is Archie Bunker incarnate. I have witnessed many comments that would bring civilized 21st century people to their knees. This man will smoke while cooking. Karma???? NO WAY, he's never been caught fudging a date, smoking on line or anything else.

2) The other boss.
When this one manages, he thinks he knows EVERYTHING. Although he has NEVER worked in a restaurant, waited tables, or bar tended, he thinks he knows whats best. He will yell at people when he's frustrated and totally PMS's all the time. Karma????? NO WAY, the owners LOVE him, the rest of us cannot stand him.

3) I waitress.
I have a BA and I can't find a better job, I get yelled at work and I have to serve people all day without a break. Nuff said.

Nature

I actually got a chance to get out and use my camera and I thought I would share some of my pictures.

Not sure of this is one tree or 2 that grew together. Pretty cool.

The Host

I just finished reading The Host by Stephenie Meyer and it was great. It was a little hard to get into at first, but as it progressed it got better and better.

This is a book about aliens who are invading the earth. It is a little different than what you may expect. The aliens are implanted into the human bodies where they then take over and make the "owner" of the body disappear. We begin the book with a special soul (alien) called Wanderer, because she has lived on 8 different planets but hasn't found where she belongs yet. They have implanted her into a very strong willed human called Melanie. Instead of Melanie giving in and letting the soul take over, she fights back by yelling at Wanderer and playing back some very strong memories.

Melanie tries to win Wanderer over and talks her into finding her brother and boyfriend. Wanderer knows and feels everything that Melanie does and eventually she falls for Jared, Melanie's boyfriend.

This is a sci-fi novel, but of a different sort. It really comes down to a story about love, and what we would do for the ones who are important to us. It's about who you are as a person. The characters are deep and complex, some of whom I hated when I first read about them then later came to love. By the end of the book I was crying I was so emotionally involved. I think it is easily one of my top 10 favorite books of all time.

I give it a 5 out of 5. I couldn't put it down!!!