Not Home for You

"Mom, you've got to hear this!" #2 Son came in bursting with something important to impart.

"Guess what?"

Do I have to?

"I got kicked out of Home Depot!"

They let you back in after last time?

"No, that was Lowe's, this is different."

Really. The sarcasm of my comment was lost on him, as usual.

"I was there with Sammy and his dad, and we were just in the aisle with the sledgehammers and stuff, and we were picking them up, trying to decide if we wanted to buy one, and this guy came along and told us to get out of the store, that we weren't allowed to be in there without parental supervision. And we tried to tell him that Sammy's dad was outside tying the Christmas tree on the car, and we were only going to be in there for about 5 minutes while he did that, and the guy said we had to leave. So we said we would go to another aisle, and he grabbed us by the backs of our coat collars and hauled us out of there. It was annoying!"

Son, when an adult asks you to do something, and it isn't illegal or immoral, you do as you are told.

"Awww, but mom, we wanted to buy a sledgehammer or something!"

Son, the last thing I need around here is the headache you would cause with a sledgehammer. You cause enough headaches with a regular one, thank you.

At that point, he humphed and walked out. Christmas break is coming up soon. I'm very afraid.


Today is:

Constitution Day -- Thailand

International Animal Rights Day

International Human Rights Day

Lux Mundi -- Ancient Roman Calendar (honoring Libertas as the bringer of light into the world)

National Lager Day

Nobeldagen -- Sweden (Alfred Nobel's Day, presentation of the Nobel Prize)

St. Eulalia's Day (patron of Barcelona, childbirth, sailors, travelers, calm waters; against miscarriage)


Anniversaries Today:

Mississippi becomes the 20th US State, 1817



Birthdays Today:

Raven-Symone, 1985
Bobby Flay, 1964
Kenneth Branach, 1960
Susan Dey, 1952
Dan Blocker, 1928
Dorothy Lamour, 1914
Chet Huntley, 1911
Emily Dickinson, 1830


Today in History:

Martin Luther publicly burns the papal edict demanding that he recant, 1520
Isaac Newton's paper De Motu Corporum in Gyrum, containing the derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley, 1684
The Massachusetts Bay Colony becomes the first American Colonial government to borrow money, 1690
The metric system is formally established in France, 1799
The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London, 1868
Women's suffrage is granted in Wyoming Territory, the first in the US, 1869
Women are granted suffrage in Tasmania, 1902
The 10,000,000th Model T Ford is assembled, 1915
The Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut, in Nashville, Tn, 1927
UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Ralph J Bunche becomes the first black to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, 1950
The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia, 1981
The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland; the closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages, 1993