Green Acres

Easter Sunday.....going to the folks for dinner.  That's pretty much tradition in my family.  It is an informal, relaxed, buffet style dinner and everyone just eats alot, visits and enjoys a laugh or two.  Today was extra funny.

Much of  the fun came from bantering about the current slang used by todays young people.  Let's just say one can feel old in a hurry.  Foxy, bogue and groovy just don't cut it anymore.  When your nephew has to leave the room to laugh just so he won't feel disrespectful, you know you're a dork.  Plain and simple.  I actually don't mind being a dork.  Little kids love dorks and we happen to have a bunch of little kids in the family at the present time, so that makes me popular.  LOVE IT.

The real laugh happened when one of my parents habits revealed itself.  We unveiled their stash of twist ties.  Now being 'green' and frugel is one thing, but what we found was an entire snack size ziploc bag chuck full of straightened out twist ties and those little sqaure plastic thing-ma-bobs that are also bread bag closer-uppers.  Next to the twist ties was 2 nut crackers.  You know those things that you get out every Christmas to crack the assorted nuts in the big bowl on the coffee table?  Well, they were neatly twisted together with one of the twist ties so that they were not left sprung open in the drawer.  Next find....the rubberbanded clump of drinking straws and then low and behold, at least a half dozen egg dippers from the paas egg coloring kit(s) neatly twist tied together.  Those will be saved for next years' coloring event. 

I am not going to name names here because I am holding both my parents responsible for this.  If I had to guess, my Mom is the one who came up with the brilliant idea of organizing her doo-dads and then told my Dad to do it.  Just sayin. 

Is this a retirement thing or is it just a 'getting old' thing? Maybe it is just something born out of a long Michigan winter, that's got to be it.  I bet there isn't a single retiree in Florida or Arizona who organize their twist ties.

Making fun of life definately makes life fun.  Callling all dorks......what can you add to the story?