surprises, shocks and good ole fun..

okay - so it's been a while since we last talked (i seem to say that alot these days don't i?) sorry... anyway - remember my friend that i recently found... well she and i talked on the phone for FOUR hours. yes indeed. from 9pm until almost 1:30am! i was soo surprised because i as tired as we both had to be, we probably could have kept on talking for 4 more hours. we talked about everything under the sun and then some.

she and i have gone down similar paths in life - with some differences of course. we're planning on trying to meet up at a halfway point one day soon. i'll keep you posted on how that goes...

so saturday, me, mom and dad were on our weekend outing - probably to eat someplace - YES it was... a fantastic sandwhich place - OMG- amazing... but i digress... my question to you is this... why do people do what should ONLY be done behind closed doors, completely void of any other people... in their cars at stop lights? why? people can SEE them.

picture this... we're driving along, talking about random silly stuff and we hit a stop light. i'm in the back seat, dad is driving and mom is in the passenger seat. dad and i are like clones of each other (which is weird but true). we look at other people and instantly point out the weird factor. mom doesn't do it much, but today - she was in rare form. she comments on the strange woman behind the wheel to our left. dad and i look, this woman is clearly insane. she's alone in her car, twisting her hair (which is perfectly normal because i DO that), but she was also talking to herself. not singing along with a radio or cd, talking to herself WITH hand motions. so maybe a better statement is that she was having an arguement with herself. what happened next STILL shocks me.

mom looks away and dad and i are still mesmirized by her actions - and then it happened. her forefinger went up the nose.... then into her mouth. i. kid. you. not. now, i have to say i have never seen any one person - over the age of 4 - do this. but she did... AND she did it more than once! the second time, she actually LOOKED at her 'prize' before devouring it. what kind of person is that? OMG - we were mortified that a) someone her age would do this and b) in public open view of other people. her windows were NOT tinted. people COULD see her. OMG OMG OMG. we all three screamed out in terror as we witnessed this grotesque display. it took literally all day to get the vision out of my head. it's still there though. i'm considering therapy.