Walking Backwards

Right now I am in the process of composing an entry about my mid-life crisis, or what I feel qualifies as a mid-life crisis and what is probably just an ordinary 'life-crisis' that we all fall victim to from time to time, but it is all in it's genesis (the entry and the crisis). So, until I am able to potificate (yay Latin usage!) on it all, a list of things that have frustrated me and confused me and caused my brain to ache all in this one morning:

- I think I am the only person in the world who is frustrated by my lack of car space because it limits my ability to pick up cool things that other people have put out to be thrown away. You may be upset by your lack of car space, but I doubt that it is for the reason that you have been hindered in picking up other people's garbage. Someone put out an awesome chair today that looked from afar like it only needed to be recovered, but there was no way to get those legs in the door of my bottom-of-the-line Saturn. As I drove away discouraged, a truck with a camper slammed on it's brakes and I didn't even have to turn around to figure out what he was after.

- I am not a person who is driven to distraction by the cleavage-barring, tight-fitting clothing choices of those around me, but I have discovered a fashion choice that sufficiently stops me in my tracks and cause me to lose my train of thought the moment I encounter it. Sadly, it is in my Latin class and this look is arrayed by my teacher. *The man unbuttons his shirt to almost his belly button*. While I don't find this look particularly arousing, especially on a ninety year-old man, I have to give him the credit he deserves in the it lead me to look at his chest for a good two minutes forsaking all that was going on around me. I don't think he noticed me.

- I was left in utter confusion when I passed a car that said on the back 'Jesus COMING SOON' almost like a movie marquee, but I almost wrecked my car trying to get across two lanes to follow the thing when I saw that they had written on the side in the same bold white print 'God's truth about Marijuana'. That is something I really want to know. I would never have thought that God would have cared all that much.