Expired Coincidence

Some time ago, I had to get my driver's license renewed. To renew in BC you have to go to a driver services centre, pay an exorbitant fee and get your picture taken. After which they give you a yellow piece of paper that is titled your Interim Driver's License to hold you over until you get your real license in the mail.

"Ugh. I got my driver's license."

My brother perks up.

"Lemme see!"

"Here."

He grabs it and takes a look. After examining it for a few seconds, his jaw drops and his eyes go wide.

"Oh my gosh!!! What a coincidence!!!!!!"

"What?"

"Your driver's license expires on your birthday!!!!!!!"

"Uhhh. Andy?"

"Yeah?"

"Everyone's license expires on their birthday."

"Really?!"

Laugh Tomorrow

We've had a real hot spell this past week; the temperatures have been soaring and the heat is breaking records everywhere. My bedroom is downstairs and is one of the coolest places in the house.

Lastnight, my brother decided he was going to sleep in my room. He pulled out a mattress and put it on the floor of my room along with his pillow, blanket and fan. After he had the fan set up so that it would blow cool air his way, he sat down to finish up his homework (he's going to summer school to get ahead in math). Now I had been berry picking all day and I was so exhausted that it didn't matter to me whether or not my bedroom light was on. He studied until about 12.30am after which he shut off the light and laid down to go to sleep.

About a half an hour later, I wake up to the sound my brother shuffling about.

"Andy, are you still awake?"

"Yeah. I can't get to sleep."

"Just relax, you'll sleep soon enough."

"No, I don't think I can sleep here. I think I'm going to go back to my room."

"What? It's too hot upstairs. You definitely won't get to sleep there."

"I can't sleep here. I'm going to my room. I'll take the mattress out tomorrow, k?"

"Fine."

So he gets up, grabs his pillow, blanket and fan and heads upstairs. I go right back to sleep.

About another half hour later, I hear my bedroom door open.

"Andy?"

"Yeah."

"What happened?"

"It's too hot in my room. I can't get to sleep there. I'm gonna sleep here."

"You're an idiot."

So he brings back his pillow, his blanket and his fan. I realize that he needs to plug in the fan and being worried about his safety I said, "You can turn the bedroom light on to plug the fan in. I don't want you to electrocute yourself."

"I don't need the light. I see all!"

After a few seconds of fumbling around, he decided he couldn't see all and turned the light on.

"Andy, I don't have the energy to laugh at you right now. I'll do it tomorrow."

Oh So Blue

Blueberries

Blueberry Rows:

Center: Dad, Left: Andy, Right: Jimmy

Left: Jimmy, Right: Andy

Moi

Oh So Blue

There is no berry picking machine for blueberries, so they are all hand picked. Our blueberry plants are pretty young, and that's why they are so short. Once the plants are fully grown, they will be about 7ft tall. Not as much excitement as raspberry picking on the machine - this is a much more quiet and relaxing pick. Blueberries are oh so good.

Grishma on a High

In a bid to be healthier, my friend Grishma gave up pop quite some time ago. Today she decided to go and get her self a slurpee (sic?)...a Coca Cola slurpee. On any normal day she is a handful to handle (which is ok because I'm usually right there with her in the handful to handle department!) but today, with the caffeine and sugar roaring through her veins, she was much much more than a handful. She called me on her way home from work. Here is a snippet of our telephone conversation...to clarify, it wasn't a two sided conversation...this is Grishma doing all the talking.

"I have to go say hello to my grandmother now."

"I don't know what the hell I'm going to say to her."

"She's going to think I'm on crack."

"She doesn't even know what crack is."

I am praying that Grishma's family survives her antics tonight.

Udders of the Sea

My idiot brother and my cousin Jimbop were playing their favourite online computer game Counter Strike. In that particular game, there was a teammate of theirs whose username was Udder. Apparently, this Udder character was not a good player as he was unable to defuse a bomb (or something of the sort). My brother was being vocal about this player not being able to play the game properly:

"Ugh. This Udder guy is such an idiot. The Udder should just go back to where he came from."

"Uhhh, Andy?"

"Yeah Jim?"

"Do you know what an udder is?"

"Yeah, they're in the sea."

"Uhhhh. No. Those are otters. Hahahaaaaa."

"Ohhhhhhhhhhh."

Pharmacy

I'm sitting at the pharmacy waiting for my prescription to be filled. I took "holidays" from my normal job this week so that I could do some berry picking (like I do every year). Except during this set of holidays, I got strep throat - really really bad strep throat...the kind that at one point I truly believed was going to kill me. Anyway, as I'm waiting for my prescription I can't help but listen in on a conversation.

An elderly man goes up to the pharmacy counter, looks at a young woman and says "Are you the pharmacist?"

"Yes, I am"

"Then tell me, is there a pill that takes the black spots off of teeth?"

"Hm. There isn't such a pill. But we do have tablets that can show you where the plaque is on your teeth and you can brush accordingly."

"Oh, how do those work?"

"Well, you would chew one tablet and the tablet would then stain your teeth where you have plaque. Then once the stains are on you'd brush in those parts to get the stains and the plaque off."

"Can I see the tablets?"

"Sure."

The pharmacist then goes over and picks up the tablets and hands them to the man. The man takes that packet, looks at it, flips it around and looks at it some more then hands the packet back to the pharmacist.

"Lady! I have dentures!!!"

Haha! Twas very funny!

Another July, Another Berry Season

We're berry picking again! I'll be taking pictures again this year and posting them, in the meantime please amuse yourself with my last July's archives - scroll down to the posts titled "Slim Pickin". Nothing much has changed except for the fact that we now have a lot more blueberries and a bit less raspberries. I'll do up some blueberry pics for you this year too.