I have this friend named Justin.  Justin owns a dozen pet rats.  Why he owns rats, I really didn't want to get into that so I left it alone.  One day, I asked him how his "pets" were doing.  He replied with "Well, I think they aren't getting along very well.  Three of them have alot of bite marks on them, I think they are fighting."  I said "Are you sure they are fighting?  Some of your rats probably have fleas."  So Numnuts responds with the worst response I think I could've ever heard..."Oh that's impossible, rat's can't get fleas."  Rat's can't get fleas???? Was he serious?  I informed him that any animal can carry fleas.  In fact I asked him what did he think started the Bubonic Plague?  He thought it was the rats themselves.  I sure hope that he doesn't walk in the middle of the road when he goes home.

So I know I'm not the only one who does this.  I shopped at Giant Eagle today and picked up a few things for dinner.  I was 4 spots away from the entrance to the store, so I'm too lazy to take the cart to one of the cart returns or taking it back into the store.  After I'm done loading my car up, I decided to hoist the cart up onto the curb so it's not in anybody's way.  Well there was a van parked closest to the curb, and there was a mom and her three fatherless children in the vehicle at the time (you guess what race they were).  After I put the cart on the curb, I heard some hollering from the van, didn't think anything of it cuz I thought she was just yelling at one of her kids.  Turns out it was me she was yelling at.  Apparently, she had a real vendetta with me putting the cart there, but I ignored her and got into my car.  When I was backing out, I noticed that one of her children got out of the van, took the cart off the curb, and pushed it violently ... Read more ...