Insanity!

People are demented.  Absolutely demented.  I know this is a harsh statement to make, but please hear me out and let us see if you agree.

Two days ago Hubby was at work waiting on a table with a botox filled grandmother, her impeccably dressed, thirty-something year old daughter and a little girl who looked about seven.  As they were sitting down, the child's mother wordlessly handed my husband the following note, which he graciously gave me permission to show to you:

What the??!!  Naturally, Hubby had no intentions of doing anything of the sort, though he did pass the note on to another coworker who in turn approached the child and asked her if she was "Zoey" from "Zoey 101."

"Oh, I get that all the time!" the child apparently responded.  Later, when Hubby went back to the table the mother mouthed the words "thank you" before leaving eighteen percent gratuity.  (Call me crazy, but I'd have thought this strange request would warrant at least a twenty percent tip?)

Hubby was quite bothered that someone would assume he was familiar with a television show called "Zoey 101."  And who can blame him, really?  I'd actually never heard of it before this unfortunate occurrence.

I myself am disturbed on a number of levels.  For starters, it really irks me when someone chooses to end a question with a period.  For some reason it just seems kind of mental to me.  (As in, Can you please mistake my daughter for the character 'Zoey' from Zoey 101.)  She's telling, not asking.  Which in my opinion somehow makes this wretched request all the more pathetic.

On another note, do seven year olds really need to be flattered?  Is this truly necessary?  The fact that this was obviously a premeditated ruse also concerns me greatly.  Has she done this before?  If so, what on earth would possess a mother to beseech a stranger to falsely inquire whether or not her child was Jamie Lynn Spears? 

Is this some twisted threshold modern day mothers pray their adolescent offspring aspire to?  If so, I bitterly weep for the collective Jamie Lynn's of this nation.  What kind of a psycho is this woman.  (See, it looks mental without the question mark, right?)

If you haven't already noticed, Dear Reader, we're back from Aruba, the land of flamingos, orange colored sunsets, and fruity rum based cocktails. 

When we hopped into our taxi outside JFK, something told me our vacation had come to an end.  Perhaps it was it the cab's aroma of stale cigarettes, or the throng of rushing people...or the Lifestyles Triple Pleasure wrapper curiously perched inside the door handle of the cab... 

    

And with that, yours truly found herself back in New York.  Suntanned and longing for hand sanitizer.  Lots and lots of hand sanitizer.  xoxo

Comments

[Weinerdog]

What's actually more sick?

The fact that you know that Jaimie Lynn Spears is Zoey 101 or the fact that I thought Zoey was played by Miley Cyrus and then remembered that she is Hanna Montana?

Are we really cool or pathetic 29 yr olds?

[The Odd Broad]

Well, I did have to go to Wikipedia in order to confirm that Jamie Lynn is Zoey. (Although I did have an inkling...)

Also, I am still 28! Only a little over a month left, though! How and when did we get to our late twenties, Laverne? xoxo