bah...i woke up yesterday with my neck out...well nearly...but by sometime early afternoon it went completely...
but of course i did the one thing you aren't supposed to do with an injured neck...drive...and what's worse, i drove the german tuna can with a bitch of a stick and on lots of curves and hills...
i HAD to as it was the boybarians' piano lessons (apparently wingman has a good ear for music says the teacher...yea!)
so i dosed up on advil and hit the road...then i HAD to stop for gas and then i HAD to climb under the car where the gas cap rolled blah blah blah...
needless to say my neck was a wreck by the time we got home...so i munched on the advil and sipped jim beam and iced my neck and counted the minutes till i could get us all fed and in bed...
the thing about icing a muscle is that you HAVE to keep it on at least 20 minutes...even if its unbearable or you already feel numb, it still must be 20 minutes...because any less and the muscle is just getting used to it then BAM! the ice is gone and the muscle gets pissed and gets even more tense...
it's a lot like trying to take a keg cup away from the drunk girl at a party...it's only gonna piss her off and she'll go get A WHOLE NEW CUP which means she'll drink more than she would have and the consequences will be a lot more grim...best just to let her finish and what she already has then trick her out the door before she pukes on your new throw rug...
anyhow, on the way home from the stupid driving adventure we come to one of two new stoplights in the equivalent of one city block...courtesy of the new wal-mart that just opened last week...
can i say you used to be able to leave my house and not stop for a light for five miles?...and now, well...
so anyhow i stop at the second one and grumble
"thanks for all the traffic and stoplights wal-mart"
then the duke says
"yeah, it used to be just a sleepy little road before...why did they build a wal-mart right here?"
"because wal-mart wants to conquer the world...like alexander the great...they want to be sure they've captured and covered as much as they can"
"um, mama, i think you mean caeser"
"whatever...the point is they are the largest retail business in the world...they sell things so cheap but don't pay the people making them very well...and they don't pay their workers enough to afford even the basic health coverage, or provide it themselves...so people like us who pay taxes have to pick up the difference when they get sick and have to use the emergency room instead of a doctor...yet the company is worth billions!"
then wingman says
"well, that's not very kind"
"no it's not...but that's wal-mart...you get your stuff for cheap but then you have to pay higher taxes to take care of their employees...there's very little savings in the end"
"and more traffic"
indeed.
fortunately, thanks to the advil, the ice, and mr. beam my neck feels mildly better today, and hopefully will be much better by tomorrow...
unfortunately, wal-mart will still be here...
x.
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