by BB Curtis

I don’t know if the rest of you have noticed a trend over the years, but many of my friends, associates, and I can certainly testify to some very strange energy running around.  The least likely seems to have become normal.  What we had thought to be the most obvious appears now to be obscure.  Any truths are now falsehoods.  Laws of physics and logic no longer apply.  Additionally, this oddball energy started about ten years ago and has become worse over time.  We’re currently seeing police officers acting as though it’s appropriate to shoot small children without provocation and people who are running for public office ranting, raving, flailing, and screaming outright prejudice while insisting that they are not racist or prejudiced.  Allow me to tender some examples from the beginning of the strangest things.

At a staff meeting, a discussion on scheduling was underway.  There had been some operational and staff changes that had left the schedule off-kilter with a couple of days each week that were not being manned properly, and customer service was suffering, while on other days the staff was standing around doing nothing due to an overabundance of them.  A new method of scheduling was being implemented that would cover operational hours more efficiently. One staff member said, “It sounds like you’re doing this for the benefit of the company, not for the employees.”  After the initial shock wore off, the director who was running the meeting nodded and said, “Yes, that’s exactly it.”  I have to wonder if this individual thought about what he was saying before he opened his mouth, or did he really think that the company existed for the employees instead of the customers?  It was even more peculiar to the assistant manager, department manager, and director that the person who made this statement was always famous for starting out complaints by reminding his upper management that he used to be in management.  One has to wonder if this kind of thinking is why he was no longer in management.

On the highways going through Colorado Springs there were lighted signs that scream at drivers “OVER THE LIMIT, UNDER ARREST” and “THE HEAT IS ON, DRIVE SOBER.”  However, 17 misdemeanors and 2 felonies in nine months, committed by a repeat offender who hasn’t spent more than 45 consecutive days out of jail for the past four or five years, is not enough to carry a sentence any stiffer than 30 days on a DUI with multiple cars damaged.  He did a stint in jail for a DUI committed on December 17, 2005.  He was released on July 3, 2006, and was back in jail on the morning of August 22, 2006, for a (you guessed it) DUI – hit and run on a parked vehicle along with at least five other charges including violation of probation.  Are they waiting ‘til he kills someone while he’s on a drunk?  If one looks up this criminal’s record at the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department’s website, one will also notice that this man has a minimum of four warrants out for his arrest (one of which is for a felony) and several of his previous charges are for acts of violence – but he was released on September 19th, having served 28 days, though the sentence was 30.  We release people from jail early who have multiple active warrants, a couple of felonies, no job so he couldn’t have been paying restitution and had to have more than one probation violation, and a history of violent crimes?  But, God forbid, you drive over the speed limit; or you’ll find your dastardly, little self under arrest!  My head aches!

On the flip side, we have a woman who has never been in trouble, pays her bills, stops at stop signs, and keeps her home and her nose clean.  Her power was turned off . . . we don’t know why.  This ranks up there with another party whose cell phone was turned off because her payment was misapplied, but the cell company refuses to do the proper investigation and then run the payment she made on the correct account – she has proof.  Also, there are the long-distance calls being charged to another woman.  These calls were made from a landline she had disconnected six months prior to the dates of the calls.  Her current phone has been disconnected for lack of payment (the bogus charges are over $400).  When she has tried to resolve the problem, the local phone service blames the long-distance company and the long-distance company blames the local phone service.  The only buck that’s stopping here is the one with his antlers stuck in her behind.

A 2006 car purchased new in November 2005 had a minor problem about six months later – a defective CD changer that locked up with five CDs stuck in it.  The dealership replaced the unit that included all the musical parts along with the AC and heater.  When the driver attempted to use the cruise control, it wouldn’t engage; however, it did handily change the stations on the radio.  The owner went to a different dealership, and they fixed the cruise control.  They also must have found more than one problem with the wiring – the sound coming from the radio/CD player/cassette player improved immensely.  It appears that the original wiring had never been correct – now all the speakers work, for the FIRST time.

A woman with heart problems was in the hospital for an operation.  She was released.  She was called back to the hospital and another surgery was scheduled within the next couple of days.  Does anyone else think that the original surgery was botched?

A woman found out that she was pregnant.  She was not in a situation to have more children, so she got an abortion.  Another month goes by, and she had some issues and was told that she was pregnant, but she hadn’t been sexually active since before the abortion.  Turns out that she was pregnant with triplets, and the doctor aborted only one fetus.  She’ll be having twins in a few months.  She won’t be getting any sort of a refund for an abortion that was not done correctly and completely either.

These are stories from people I know – the car’s mine.  I didn’t go around searching for them.  I didn’t request any stories of the weird and the stupid.  They are not fish stories.  The information is verifiable, but my sources prefer to remain nameless.

Be well!

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