The world has blue blue balls

This post has two working titles. I went with blue balls because I thought it would be less offensive than "Dr. Lecter's feast day."

Allow me to explain. I understand that we've had a lot of storms building to the south of us. Yesterday afternoon, we were convinced that the 3 storms converging on us would be spectacular! I was battening down the hatches because the wind was so strong, the sky was the blackest I've seen it in a long time, and the slightly metallic smell of rain was like a promise. It was exciting, and we really need the rain. So when the storm broke up after barely spitting on us, it was disappointing to say the least. And this keeps happening! It looks like we're finally going to get some weather, but it breaks up as soon as it hits the houses.

My theory is that it's a bit like when a man is excited but gets no relief. It builds pressure. So maybe all this build up to storms without the release of an actual storm has built up the barometric pressure and made people ruder than they normally would be.

Or maybe the world has just gotten that bad and people are assholes. Hence, Dr. Lecter would have a feast. I love the idea of Hannibal Lecter because he only killed rude people. How many times have you thrown up your hands in exasperation because rudeness isn't a crime so you are totally helpless in dealing with the impolite morons that make living harder than it needs to be.

Today has been a doozy, and it's not even lunch time! Women stopping their SUV's in the middle of the road, stopping traffic in both directions, to have a conversation. Truck driver pulling so far forward into the intersection that I couldn't see oncoming traffic to make a safe turn, but the truck behind me really didn't care and just wanted me to GO! Workers parking their shopping cart/trolley/buggy diagonally across the aisle, blocking anyone from moving anywhere, arguing with their coworker. Really? REALLY?? Ugh.

On the good side, there's a cemetery down the road from our house that's attached to a church. The church has their sign announcing what this week's sermon is in the front corner of the cemetery. This sometimes is amusing, but today's was so perfect I almost had to pull over I was laughing so hard. I think I may try to get a picture tomorrow. Today, presiding over the cemetery, the sign read: Responding to God's invitation.