Vacation! (sort of)
July 02, 2007
Sorry for the lightness of my posting lately, but all last week was spent recuperating from the Summer Ick (both Lily and I), which for me culminated in not just a sinus infection, but also hives in reaction to the medication for the sinus infection.
We're on the mend now, despite a nagging cough, and the in-laws arrived happily on Friday. We spent today at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago (photos soon), which was a blast. And just for fun, I thought I'd share some of the stupid things I've overheard in the last few days...
At the zoo (in front of the Lion Tamarins), a man says to his wife and children: "Look at them ugly hairy little thangs!" (go watch Nascar, I wanted to say).
At the zoo (in front of the chimpanzee enclosure), a teenager shouts "look! Monkeys!" (this one just makes me want to bang my head on the nearest hard object).
At Marshall's yesterday, a morbidly obese middle school boy shouted to his mother, "ITALY'S NOT IN EUROPE!" Indeed. Indeed.
I need a nap.
Posted by mwashburn at July 2, 2007 07:35 PMPosted to just for fun
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"Look at them ugly hairy little thangs!"
It made me shudder too, and tamarins are nothing if not cute. But, to be fair, I would have said the same thing at the tarantula exhibit, if I had gotten close enough to actually see the ugly, hairy little things.
Posted by: adam at July 2, 2007 08:27 PM
My response to the "look at them ugly hairy little thangs" would have been "tsk, that's no way to speak to your children!" Tamarins are my favorite zoo animal. How could anyone think they were ugly?
I would have banged my head on the wall, too, upon hearing the rest of the stupidity.
Posted by: Christina at July 3, 2007 09:21 AM