Jude 2

Friday 12th, 2009 - Afternoon.

#1. We all decided to go get a kitten. Pound had a two for one sale... said they would close at 5:30 pm. We arrived at 4:00. CLOSED. Kids were upset.

#2. Daughter wanted to go roller skating in the next town over 30+ miles away. Sure.. no kittens, let's do it. Later when we arrived and purchased some socks. A HUGE storm was approaching.. literally rolling in at 70 mph.. so I turned and left the roller rink. The winds caught up to us and was flipping 4x8 arrow road signs and debris all next to us as we attempted to outrun. Tons of bad winds for a while. So after some time.. we doubled back to the roller rink and found out that it was CLOSED (after waiting 15 minutes passed the opening time) for the Weekend due to a Town Event.

#3. So we went to that Town Event and an official stated they would have a mega large fireworks display later at 9:30 pm. So we decided to wait on that treat. We decided to get some dinner to wait. The dinner almost never came. The food was good.. but took nearly an HOUR to get it. Don't ask about all these details. We doubled back around 9:15 pm to catch the fireworks display and noticed all the cars LEAVING. Yep... We missed it. They shot them at 9:00 pm!!! Kids again UPSET.

#4. So at that late point we had passed an old Ice Cream establishment and decided to double back and grab some of that. Our mouths were watering. When we arrived.. the neon went off and the shop CLOSED.

#5. Not being defeated on #4.. we located the nearest McDonalds to source some ICE CREAM cones for the defeated trip home.... and the line was extremely long due to the Town Event. We went inside and begin to wait in the long line. After a minute or two.. I was impressed to ask a McDonalds employee if they were selling ICE CREAM cones...

and get this..

She said, "No, the machine is messed up.. SORRY!".


Mamma said it would be days like this.

Wow, I don't think Mama told me about that kind of day
Sure that it wasn't Friday the 13th

MacUser wrote:#3. So we went to that Town Event and an official stated they would have a mega large fireworks display later at 9:30 pm. So we decided to wait on that treat. We decided to get some dinner to wait. The dinner almost never came. The food was good.. but took nearly an HOUR to get it. Don't ask about all these details. We doubled back around 9:15 pm to catch the fireworks display and noticed all the cars LEAVING. Yep... We missed it. They shot them at 9:00 pm!!! Kids again UPSET.

Is it even dark enough to light fireworks at 9pm?

Definately not a day to try your hand at the lottery.

Is your name Alexander? You had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day!

Paully, in Mississippi at 9 PM (Central Time Zone), yes, it is dark enough for fireworks.

The McDonald's ice cream machine excuse --- it's famous. Whenever it gets late or they're too busy to refill the machine and short handed, the ice cream machine is down. They won't just tell you, "Hey, it's 9:30. We break this sucker down at 9. Try again tomorrow." They blame the machine. "It's down." "The machine isn't working", like it took off work to catch a date with the smoothie maker or something.

Did everything wind up being your fault? With my crew, it always seems to wind up being my fault!

I know every establishment you listed. Sorry you had such a rough evening.

I live a few miles from the "town event". After the huge storm, my family and I were sitting in the quiet darkness of our den (no power). About 9:00pm, I could hear the booms of the fireworks. I told my wife, "hmmm, they are shooting the fireworks early this year".

Yeah...I know exactly how you feel...

but look at the bright side...no kittens meowing all night...no animal messes in the house today...

no added inches to the waistline from the ice cream

and a lot of money saved...cept on gas.

PastorP wrote:Did everything wind up being your fault? With my crew, it always seems to wind up being my fault!

Amazingly I can at least say.. that I wanted to go the opposite direction and go to the movies.. so thank goodness for small favors.

Thanks for the positive comments everyone. You just had to be there sort of day..