"Mixed weight couples"? in A small but passable life.

An article I stumbled onto on huffpost was titled- “10 things to never ask a mixed weight couple”. What. The. Fuck. Yeah, I read it. Who’s not tempted to? Apparently, morbidly obese women who’ve found someone who weighs hundreds of pounds less than they do to partner with are still being discriminated against by people asking questions about their relationship. Okay. I’m not curious, I won’t ask ANY questions.

Mixed weight couple? This is really a category now? How about a “mixed intelligence” couple? That may be more common!

You really can’t make this shit up.

So yeah, today was a normal do nothing day. Coffee while finishing “Deathwave” by Ben Bova, then a lie down while listening to NPR. Now the rest of the evening sitting right here in this chair. I could have gone to the pool. It made it to 76 degrees today. But I didn’t. There’ll be more warm days.

Another topic. Guns. Weapons. Things that go “bang”.

We’re going to leave guns used to procure food out of the discussion.

I like to think of a fear scale from one to ten.

Zero being people who are never scared of anything, ever. And ten being people who are scared of everything, all the time.

I’m a zero. I really don’t give a fuck. (I’ve already lived seven lives. I got a couple left.) I think a ten would be the guy who packs a pistol to eat at the Jack in the Box. (Mom wouldn’t let me go ask him what he was scared of!)

Where am I going here. I don’t know. I was trained by the US government to kill other humans, because. . .because…basically that’s what we were told. So, if I ever do become fearful enough to desire a gun in my hand…I’ll just come and take yours!

I’ve only had a gun pointed at me once. The gun pointer apologized later, claiming drunken stupidity. His house burned down, with his gun collection inside, a few nights later while he was at work. I guess I wasn’t the only one he’d acted stupid towards.

The most amusing and also sadly stupid stories are the folks who ‘accidentally’ shoot themselves or others at a gun safety class. Why were there bullets in an indoor classroom? Not a lot of intelligence present there?

Anyway, enough ramblin’ for now.

Last updated March 04, 2018