We Don't Need No Stinking Soccer.

We took Sneedlet 1 to the zoo today. It was really crowded because they were having a free day. Had we known it was free day we would have gone another day, mostly because of the parking situation. Sneedlet and I were just in time to to feed the giraffes. They give you pellets and the giraffes grab them with their giant, black tongues. Sneedlet is at the age (3) where he is more aware of things that previously didn't faze him. For instance, he has become afraid of high places and doesn't want to ride on my shoulders anymore. I thought he might be afraid of the giraffes, but he did pretty well. Our little zoo is pretty nice for a facility of its size. We have had a brewing controversy for sometime now about the elephants. The elephant area is too small to support both elephants according to elephant experts. Some citizens had a plan to move the elephants to a refuge in Tennessee, where they have a herd, living big, both literally and figuratively. There was a petition drive, which seems to have failed. Instead, the city council voted to build a multi-acre enclosure better suited to the needs of a couple of lovable giants. The plan is to convert an small portion of the 1 square-mile park in the center of our city that is adjacent to the zoo. Unfortunately, this includes a field that is used by some soccer club and you know how passionate those wacky soccer guys can get. They are up in arms (or is it feet?). Anyway, as many have observed before me, Americans don't care about no stinking soccer, so the plan is on. By the way, I know that many rabid parents care deeply about soccer, or at least care about their kids playing soccer. All across our fruited plains scores of kids play endless , mind numbing games of soccer each Saturday morning. Parking lots fill with SUVs, their windows adorned with supportaive messages. Kid soccer is big, I get it. I also know that once these soccer-playing hostages get old enough to just say no, they will join the majority of Americans who don't care about no stinking soccer. Of course, lots of things get talked about in our fair city and many don't actually happen, at least in a timely fashion. I don't look for the new elephant enclosure in the near future. After the zoo we went to have lunch and now his honor is spending the night. I just took him out of my bed and put him into his own. He will be pissed off when he wakes up, but as I have said many times, seniority has it's perks. Merle Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgemental and cranky Tag: Daily Life Personal Finance Humor