Loonies On The Loose!

The is just something about the holiday season that brings the absolute freakishness out in some people!

Last Tuesday I had to hop a bus to Des Moines to get my annnual eye exam. Simple proess, or should be in theory anyway.  As I get on the bus one of the passengers was in a major verbal altercation with the bus driver, I honestly expected the bus driver to pull the bus over and call the sheriff's office.  Then the passenger pulls his pants off!  The teenage girl in front of him, sitting sideways watching this spectacle, starts screaming, the bus driver swirves off the road and I am thinking - yup gonna miss my appointment now!  But, the little old lady sitting in front of me, swung her umbrella like a baseball bat!, and dropped Mr. Bares-All like a sack of potatoes!  Yeah, she really rung his bells!!!!!  His screams and vulgarities continued as he crawled to the back of the bus, hugging his pants.  As I exitted the bus, he was still quiet, still doubled over, still moaning.  It was hard to feel sorry for his pain ... :)

Also on Tuesday, my mother went off the deep end again.  What can you say?  She lives in a state where crazy people are allowed loose - as long as they do not harm anyone.  Well, ya know, once they do harm someone it is a little too late then!  But, her 1.5 hour raging call about her trailer and THEY whom are wanting to damage her place, finally settled down to she was not going to come to Christmas.  What ever .....  Every friggin year insanity at this time of year!

Wednesday was the family Christmas Eve party, I suspect my last, so I tried to make it special.  LOL, yah sure ya betcha!  I am cooking on the stove when I hear oldest daughter arrive.  She stormed into the kitchen, three sheets to the wind, slams a wine bottle down and proceeds to tell me about her battle with my mother an hour earlier and her ordering my mother out of her house!  Seems mother decided to straighten daughter out on what a horrible person my dead father is.  Only problem is that he at least chose to be a part of my childrens' lives for many years, versus my mother, whom only this year decided that she might like to know them a little.  LOL .... See, it is not just me that knows mother is insane!  LOL!

In the end, oldest daughter was so ploughed she gave son money to get more wine.  And, at least I was to learn how she became pregnant at 18: Oldest Daughter + wine = clothes keep falling off.  Sigh ...

Then, add to this really grumpy people at the grocery store, or most any store I went to, customers were on a rage - leaving in their wake far too many broken service providers.  Twice I took the time to cheer up cashiers whom were in tears due to the customers immediately in front of me.  People are just flat out insane this time of year!  So, I took the tact of wishing every sad person I met a Merry Christmas.  Quite a few really perked up!

But what would Christmas Day be without my mother crossing swords with me?  Yeah, she decided she needed to call me and tell me what a bunch of whack-os my doctors are and then when that had no affect, she decided to attack my cooking skills ... well, does not matter, I was trained as a chef of the old school - she only believes in boiling things.  If it is not boiled well then it is not cooked in her book.  Yeah, worse cook outside of Scotland, ever!  I held my tongue and refused to fight with her and then she hung up on me!  LOL ... mothers!

Gaelic Girl of course had to get her digs in as well.  I found she gifted many of my things to the kids.  Whatever ...  Her attacks did not find their mark, I think I am finally past her being able to get to me - but honestly, I do not want more attacks to know for sure!  No sense tempting fate as they say!  Which of course, her barbs not hitting their mark, only angers her more.  So, not expecting the rest of the year to be going very well.  Sigh ...

So, surrounded by lunatics, obvious not where I am supposed to be, the countdown to 2015 begins!  I wonder what the new year will hold .....

I know what I hope, I know what seem realistic, I know what my "luck" seems to hold at.