Yeah. I know that's not how you spell it, but...you watch someone acting the ass, and you just tell yourself, 'yeah...that will catch up with him/her', but there's a wicked part of you that wishes, just once, you could be a mouse in the corner to witness the come-uppance...but it never works out that way.
Well...except when it does.
A vehicle came roaring down the street, revving his engine and making a general spectacle of himself. What is irksome is that it is a time when there are lots of kids walking home from the middle school, and the very last thing that we need is a driver acting foolish.
He gunned his engine and...HIS EXHAUST SYSTEM FELL OFF!
And that wicked part of myself rejoiced.
We were working down at the new build today. Tim decided that he wanted more windows. To avoid lost time, I simply agreed with him. It rankles me to watch rough wiring pulled out to install the 3 new windows. It just feels like a step backwards, and I hate steps backward. But. It is not just MY house. It is OUR house. So sometimes it is just time to shut up and go with the flow.
So I was running the chop saw and Tim was hammering, and when I shut off the saw, I heard the radio saying '...voting on legislation that a woman's place is in the home..." and Tim and I looked at each other.
"What?!!! Where the hell is THAT???" I said.
Tim said, "That's just crazy!"
It is, and we both thought it is ironic AND outrageous that the party who blocks raising minimum wage every. single. time. is now telling women that their place is in the home. We had absolutely no reason not to believe that some evangelical republican right wingers had introduced legislation like that. It won't pass. Most people cannot live on one pay check.
I grabbed my phone to see which batshit crazy state had come up with that legislation, and was much relieved to read that it was in Ireland. And that they were voting to remove the outdated wording from their legislation.
That gave us both a little laugh. We were relieved to hear it, but isn't it sad that our country is dancing backwards so quickly that we totally believed that it could be happening here?
Anyways, it was a beautiful day today. The peepers are out. I heard them for the first time yesterday.
When we came back home, guess what? I got out of the car to see Mangey running to me. Running! He is still pretty thin, but he came right to his bowl and waited patiently. I fed him and he ate every bit of it with a voracious appetite. That was such a happy end to the day.
The woman's place is in the home....wielding a chopsaw and helping to build it!!!
ReplyDeleteGood Mangey news
LOL. A woman's place is where ever she determines it to be.
DeleteOur Constitution doesn't actually state that a woman's place is in the home, instead it says that the State will endeavour to ensure that mothers shouldn't have to work outside the home through economic necessity. The referendum to change the wording takes place today.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the clarification, Joan. That's actually pretty progressive thinking, that a mother should be able to stay home if she wants to. People will decry the moral breakdown of our country and blame working mothers, but no one is willing to address the fact that it is an economic necessity. We will not raise the minimum wage, but what people miss is that the taxpayers are paying to subsidize these low wages via rent assistance, food stamps, child care vouchers, tax breaks. We are paying the difference between an unliveable wage and the cost of living. Imagine if we required employers to do that themselves.
DeleteSo glad Mangey showed up. Now if he will just hang around until he looks much better. I got to experience real Karma once. A cadillac went speeding past us---- we were doing the speed limit. I always remember the absolute delight when he was pulled over less than a mile down the road. Ha ha!
ReplyDeleteThis was in Duluth, Mn. on I-35.
ReplyDeleteThe funniest thing that I ever saw in MY LIFE was a young fellow in Alexandria Virginia. He came shooting out of a automotive repair shop and got hit in oncoming traffic during rush hour. I do not even know what he was thinking. He got hit by the car directly in front of us. When we got out of our car, he was yelling that he had just gotten his car fixed after his last accident! The guys in the repair shop were just about falling down laughing. It wasn't funny, but the good news is that no one got hurt.
ReplyDeleteI would totally believe that one of the states would try to pass a law to forbid women to work. And if they get their way outlawing birth control, no one will be able to afford child care. We are in a sad place right now.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. The same people waving their 'Don't tread on me' lags have no problems at all trampling on the rights of others
DeleteSo glad Mangey has returned. Please PLEASE find another name for him. He deserves it.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to change it right now. It is the name he comes to. I named him so Tim would know who I was talking about. I never knew I was going to steal him.
DeleteYep, Karma's a bitch! I agree with Ana about a new name for that less furry little guy. What color is he anyway? More windows in the new build? Wow! You'll have less walls to hang pictures on, or put book shelves...I'm thinking...
ReplyDeleteHe is black.
DeleteIt's hard to believe what some politicians will come up with. How long have women ben working out of the home?
ReplyDeleteNone of it makes sense.
DeleteSo glad to hear Mangey & his appetite have returned!
ReplyDeleteThat made my day, I have been calling him and looking for him. He is a hardy little critter.
DeleteOn the plus side, the additional windows will make the new place bright and airy!
ReplyDeleteI am not against them. I just hate undoing work.
DeleteI haven’t forgotten the day I saw a truck driving over a grille over a gutter. He also gunned his truck unnecessarily, the grille must have been loose, it flew up and pierced his sump. No more deliveries that day
ReplyDeleteSuch a delicious feeling to witness karma. Yet even while I am laughing, I get the uneasy feeling karma is watching me.
DeleteThanks for the peeper report. If you have them now, we should be hearing them in a few weeks here in Maine. Such a hopeful sound. Small birds have been flocking in the tops of trees and making a racket, though. I wonder what they are.
ReplyDeleteMy grandma used to call from Florida to let us know the robins were on the way. We would call her back to let her know they'd arrived. Thank you for that happy memory.
DeleteI would love to have seen that exhaust system fall off. The Japanese have a word for it. Bachi! I got this explanation from NHK (Bachi is considered a "divine punishment" or "supernatural retribution" that results from one's bad actions.)
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I agree that so many Republicans would like to send woman back to the dark ages. I love how they're saying life begins at conception so you can't abort at anytime (even for rape or incest) BUT you can destroy frozen embryos in order to protect invitro. It's so much bananas thinking.
I just cannot believe any woman would vote Republican. Yet...
DeleteBefore the driver realised what had happened, you should have run out and confiscated his exhaust system. Yes, impractical, I know.
ReplyDeleteYou might come to appreciate the extra windows, and down the track tell Tim there are too many windows to clean. We need a window cleaner.
Very interesting about Ireland, with more understanding from Joan. I expect you did not feel guilty about not being at home and dusting indoor plant leaves, in an apron with makeup and heels.
...and pearls. You forgot the pearls.
DeleteIt's good to see karma being enacted.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Mangey has appeared again and is responding to you - poor little chap.
Dinner on the table for the menfolk when they come home? (Some people still think like that!)
We will make sure he is well fed. Then we will steal him.
DeleteI would have been so happy to see the exhaust system fall out of that truck. Comeuppance!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Mangey came back, running. It's so rare to see a stray cat around here. I remember one from years ago, 25 years ago probably, and he was a big old cat that had lost his ears to frostbite.
Poor thing! I would have added him to my mudroom gang.
DeleteWhether karma or carma or cause and effect- good learning experience for the driver.
ReplyDeletePictures! I am wanting to see pictures of all the work you are doing!
And yes, I can completely understand why you and Tim both would think that it was not impossible to believe that some state was trying to legislate women staying home.
Florida was one of the conclusions we immediately jumped to.
DeleteSome people just deserve k/carma so much, like that guy who has to come up with $91M.
ReplyDeleteThe rich and the orange seem to NEVER get what is coming to them, but I live in hope.
DeleteGive them time, they'll make a run at ending women's right to vote, they are already sniffing around that. The Repub candidate for Governor in NC doesn't think women should be able to vote, "too emotional" he says. And then there was that Stepford Wife rebuttal to Mr Biden's SOTU. Given in a "kitchen" that looked like a model kitchen at Home Depot. I'll stop now....... Good news on Mangy!
ReplyDeleteSome evangelical churches are preaching that a godly woman would vote how her husband tells her to vote. 🙄
DeleteYay for Mangey!
ReplyDeleteI knew about the Ireland thing because I read that Tucker Carlson had someone on his "show" (videos posted to Telegram or wherever) recently arguing against it. Of course. Anytime there's a neanderthal political movement out there, Tucker pays attention.
That's hilarious about the car. I hope lots of people witnessed it.
I wish Tucker Carlson would stick to extolling the benefits of testicle tanning.
DeleteIt was great to laugh hysterically as he did the walk of shame back to collect his exhaust system. (it was actually a truck but 'carma' tickled me. I couldn't NOT pass up the opportunity to use it.)
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