Irritating Doofuses

For a few months I have been taking pictures of cars parked erratically, willy-silly around town. Many of these vehicles have been parked in handicapped spots but I use the word 'parked' euphemistically as none of the photos I've taken have been of cars in or near the lines outlining their space parameters.  I have labeled the driver a Doofus, the plural being Doofi...or Doofuses, take your pick. My suggestion, for the DMV, is to incorporate an eye chart with yellow lines and have the wanna-be driver place the car within the lines using the computer mouse, like a video game. My next suggestion would be to simply erase all lines everywhere and let everyone have at it, after all it is a free country...and apparently filled with Doofus Drivers.




My next item on the current list of stuff that irritates me comes out of Washington, D.C. where children in grown-up garb are name-calling and bullying one another daring the other to blink. No party is innocent. Our current events teachers in the schools have had to take a break from instructing students on emulating our elected officials. Parents are attempting to stifle bullying without role models in the very place we all should be able to find them.  If they had parked their cars, they would all be Doofuses.

Next on my list is the 'depressed' lady shot in Washington, D.C. this week by capital police after a chase down Pennsylvania Avenue. Depressed? I read the news, I'm depressed too, but I don't get in my car and take pot shots at neighbors. Doofus.

If you do not follow, on Facebook, Chief David Oliver of the Brimfield (OH) Police Department, you are missing daily doses of wisdom ALA Will Rogers. From the weather report to local drug stops, to high-fiving kindergartners to reading the exploits of the K-9s (Havoc, Joker, Nitro, and Drogen) Brimfield ranks second only to New York City in the number of people who 'Like' them  (from 29 countries) on Facebook. It gives you a personal look at a profession that these officers take very personally. It is only a short mind-hop to realize that your own local law enforcement departments deal with the same stuff every day for one reason, to protect and serve. Unfortunately, most other departments do not have the creative writing ability of Chief Oliver. Jim and I purchased two of the chief's books, No Mopes Allowed, for our two local favorite officers.

It irritates me that you can pick out a parent's child on the soccer field because that child has every bad trait exhibited by the parent. Last night we watched as a student who had been juggled some by an opposing player on the soccer team, lose focus on the game and red-faced seemed determined to strike back...and not necessarily at the goal. The referee cautioned him about his play and encouraged him to take a deep breath and get back into the game. He didn't seem to be able to. This 18-year old has some life lessons to learn. For sure our kids copy what they see. Doofus parents.

Cheers to the veterans who ignored the government shut down that closed their war memorial. This is civil disobedience at its finest. One said he had been shot at all over Europe during the war and he wasn't much afraid of capital park police. For their part, and to their credit, no effort was made to stop these veterans. Doofus government.

I think you are getting the idea that I have little to no tolerance for stupidity. On the flip side, these are my Doofuses. I elected some of them, I live around some of them, and I interact with some of them daily and enough of the time I am probably the Doofus in someone else's life. And so it goes. Like Judy Judy says, "Beauty fades but dumb is forever." I wish Judge Judy would use the proper term, Doofus!

And that's what I think about it.