Numb to Narcissism and Girl Scouts Taking back our Streets!

Hello and Welcome to the almost Ides of March…!
(that would be March 15th to you and me)

Ad on Craigslist - Los Angeles, under “Talent” section:  “Have you slept with Charlie Sheen?” 

Can you believe that? That ad shouldn’t be under talent…that should be in the: ‘for sale section” those folks at Craigslist really need to get organized.

(cartoon Courtesy of fr.toonpool.com/cartoons/voter%20apathy_43103)

I’m not really surprised by anything anymore…take for instance right here in Mesa County…We have Craig Meis as a county commissioner? I say “Meh…” doesn’t surprise me…I’m ambivalent…Most people are complacent…and really don’t care about politics. You get what you vote for.

It’s like life really…everybody is all peeved about taxes. But when your kids start getting taught by some homeless guy tapped to substitute because REAL teachers are getting laid off …then you might care…Although a class in ‘panhandling’ might be more lucrative than a government job these days…and it would clear out the corners in Grand Junction, especially on First and over at the Rimrock Shopping Center.

Those are, by the way considered High Class Hobo ‘Cha ching!” spots…Oh!... and don’t forget the Puppy mills in the Parking lots there in front of Lowe’s and the Dollar Store…I’m torn as who to give my money to…the Faux Hobos, the puppy breeders …or just say “screw it!” and go pay $10-bucks for a Red Robin Burger…they do have unlimited French fry baskets! Yummy!

But …if you want to know the truth…I think the Girl Scouts might be the answer to our Homeless problem…they are tough little sales-people and…I think they could take back our corners …I would gladly give the Green Beret Wearing, Cookie Smelling… little Sales Entrepreneurs my hard earned cabbage rather than the guy who smells like cabbage…just say’in. I say we just arm the Girls and their Troop Leaders with Cookies, the American Spirit of Capitalism and unleash them in our Streets! Offer them a “I ran off a HOBO’ badge …compliments of Curtis Sliwa and his band of Guardian Angels…
Or just Take a page or two from Egypt and Libya…”Free at last …free at last!”… The corners would be ours again and none of us would have to pretend we’re texting as to not look at the Homeless Dude on the Corner. Nothing like Sipping on a Starbucks and a $5-dollar Foot long and looking at the Homeless Guy and saying…”Sorry Dude…I got no Change!”…” Want a sun chip?”…

Life aint fair…get over it.

Monday…March 7th…I celebrate 4 years of not having to pick up a drink of alcohol. Biggest Question I get on a daily basis…”Do ya miss it?’…the Quick answer? Sure I do…some of it…the nice relaxing buzz…but I don’t miss the Crazy Ass, Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan aspect of the way “I” Drank! I was a terrible drinker…I sucked at it. So …I figure if I tried to play the guitar and got booed off the stage for 25 years…just for fun I might just switch careers …just to see if there is something better than being booed off the stage. Drinking sucked…but I didn’t know what else to do. So I was stuck. And getting Sober?....I didn’t do it alone…it was a team effort to get this ‘Villiage Idiot’ off the sauce…Sooo….to all of you that got me sober, my TRUE friends…the Salvation Army Rehab and MBC Grand Broadcasting…ALL the people that have Truly stood by me …The best gift I can give you …is to try this sober thing for another 4 years or 40? …who knows what I can do sober? I just know what I couldn’t do…and that was drink ‘normally’…Life is pretty good today…I still have shitty days…but trust me…they ain’t nothing like my drinking days…I have just found if you want a better life…you gotta work for it and truly want it, And be willing to sacrifice. Most people aren’t …that’s their issue …not mine.

Don’t get me wrong…there are days…when this world of Sarcasm, Cynicism ...Carcissism and Stupid…takes its toll…things ...like Reality TV and lids on yogurt... that make me really ...want to get a Trailer in the Middle of Utah and make my own Beef Jerky and sell fireworks and Alien Trinkets while Drinking Cheap beer all day long...
But that’s plan ‘Z’…right now I’m only on Plan ‘B’ and that’s working pretty good on this planet for me …right now.

Dave Allgood

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