Jeff's Personal Blog

This lady calls me and wants the zip code to "Leaking Springs, Texas." I told her there was no Leaking Springs anymore because a plummer had fixed it. There was a long pause and then she finally got it and started laughing.

We were going to play Uno at Mark's. Joey had the cards spread out on the table, face up and had picked out a bunch of cards. Mark said, "Put all the cards in the middle so we can shuffle and deal.
Joey said, "No shuffle. I like these. I play these."

When I got home tonight I was getting out of my car with a spark plug socket in my hand. Just then some jerk came racing down the street as fast as he could go. If I had gotten out of my car, in time, I am afraid I would have tried to throw the socket through the side of his car.

Years ago when I was selling insurance I was standing with a guy in his garage when a similar incident happened. This kid came roaring down the street. The guy grabbed a wrench and was able to wing it into the side of the car which screeched to a stop. The kid kind of sheepishly asked why the guy did that.

Windmills of My Mind

During my many drives to Utah County I have always watched for two windmills after going over Point of the Mountain. One was a huge windmill near Camp Williams that was hardly ever operational. The other was on the East side of the freeway by the Alpine exit and was on the property also occupied by a house. I always wondered if the guy who owned it had a battery powered house and the windmill charged them. Today this house and windmill had vanished...torn down without my permission or knowledge. A new project of fancy homes was being planned for and the hillside behind was being graded and staked. I guess this is progress.

No more windmill to look for anymore.
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The gas mafia seems to have set the price of gas valley-wide at $1.85 a gallon. I have not found any discounts on this price anywhere.

The Short List of Bad Drivers


Number 3:

Off duty firemen or their wives. They are easy to spot because of the firefighter's logo on their license plates. They are always aggressive drivers who have to pass you on the right or the left at high speeds to get in front of you.

I saw what I thought was one driving sanely tonight but when I got closer I saw the emblem on the license plate was not a firefighter's emblem but a similar veterans logo.

Number 2:

Construction workers and tradesmen who drive big four-wheel trucks with knobby tires and are pulling a Wells Cargo-like enclosed trailer. These guys like to drive 75-miles-per-hour in the fast lane in snowy, slippery weather while throwing up a huge spray on the cars behind them.

And Number 1:

Truck drivers who drive huge double trailor gas trucks or double bulk bin trucks from Salina or Lehi. They like to ride your bumper at 75-MPH and are never seen in the slow lane unless they are exiting the freeway.

I stopped at Wendy's in Lindon to get some chicken nuggets after work. I soon discovered they had only given me 4 nuggets instead of the usual 5. I parked and went in. Without even asking for them the manager gave me a package of five more nuggets plus a small chocolate shake for my trouble. I am eating at Wendy's again. I still think they have the fastest window service. "Super nugget me!"

This guy calls and asks me all kinds of questions about the Postal system, complaining all the time. At the end of the call he says, "So you guys are just like UPS huh?" I sarcastically replied, "Yeah, we are just like them but we don't have to drive ugly brown trucks."

Mark and Christine's kids decorated our tree with stuffed animals.

After paying for my purchase a Lowes today I mentioned to the female clerk, "Nice fragrance." She smelled her wrist and said, "Who me?" I said, "Well it is either you or that guy standing next to me in line...."

The retired owner/manager of a well-known Salt Lake radio station comes into Walmart, all the time, with a bunch of quarters and plays the crane machine where you try to grab stuffed animals and win them. He is getting quite good at it and then he gives the stuffed toys to little kids and also to my wife, who works there, and she passes them on to our grandkids.I think this is pretty cool of him.