Sunday, July 6, 2008

Lightning bug

Female lightning bugs greatly outnumber the males. The female lightning bug attracts males by flashing on the ground. The males circle above, and compete for her attention by lighting as they fly upwards.
Can't be comfortable, lying on her back, in the tall, wet and sticky grass.
My friend and I were doing acid back in the 70's at a party. He said that he met a girl, Anne, apparently his soul mate. I saw the seriousness in his eyes. In fact, he needed to find her again right now, so that he could go ahead and propose to her immediately.
He asked around for her, "Have you seen Anne?", and a guy laughed and said she was in the basement. So he went downstairs to look for her in the dark, dank basement. There were 3 guys standing about, so he asked them about Anne. "She's in there," said one, pointing towards a door.
As soon as Matt started for the door, the guy warned, "Hey, hold on, you can't go in there!" Another piped in, "Yeah, you have to take your turn!", the third mumbling something about taking a number. Just then, a lamp turned on and off twice from behind the door, visible from the under the door.
Guy number one briskly pushed by my friend and went through, and closed the door.

Friday, July 4, 2008

remember

We are lucky that there is still an active drive-in theater nearby. I took my 10 year old daughter there, with a neighbor, same age.
You know (those old enough) just at dusk, when they show cartoons, some type of filler before the main movie? Both my daughter and her friend were looking a little confused, I thought because they hadn't been to a drive-in before. Finally, my daughter asked me, "Dad, what is this? These guys are stupid..."
My God...10 years old, and she didn't know who the 3 Stooges were.
What kind of parent was I?