Things that aren't related

I usually try to pick up a Metro newspaper in the morning while waiting for the train or subway, but often don't have time to read it until the end of the day on the trip home. Such was the case yesterday, but when I got to the horoscopes, I had to laugh. Generally, I don't even read the horoscopes, much less put any stock in them, but the Metro ones sometimes have really odd lines/predictions in them, so I sometimes skim them for the amusement factor. On Thursday, my own contained the line 'Point incompetent people in the right direction' ... which is pretty much how I spent my morning, despite having a large easel set up in front of my desk telling people where to go to hand in their portfolios. Some would see it and stop themselves short at the door to the office, which was funny to watch, but some would walk straight up to me and hold it out. The sign was HUGE, I have no idea how they missed it. Tunnel vision, I suppose.... made for a good laugh among my co-workers, though.

At the end of the day, walking to my car in the train station parking lot, I noticed another car that had a rosary dangling from the rearview mirror. And not just your usual size rosary, but a big one with a sizeable ceramic cross on it (I'm surprised it didn't pull the mirror off the glass). It looked rather dangerous to me, especially in the event of an accident - it looked like it would do more harm than good to the occupants of the car! You'd be more likely to be decapitated than saved by it ...

I fully admit to being biased and not liking anything hanging from the rearview of a car I'm driving - I find it distracting to have something swinging around when I'm paying attention to the road. My sister tried to add an air freshener to the car we shared a few summers ago - a big, bright yellow jelly foot, with a sickening vanilla stench (which was intensified by the summer heat, of course). That didn't last long - the scent made me feel dizzy and sick (not a good way for the driver to feel!), and having this yellow thing swinging around was not cool either. I really don't see the need for air fresheners in cars anyways, they usually smell worse than the neutral scent that most cars have. The foot was banished to her boyfriends truck, to live out its days there .... good riddance.

I (finally) saw 'V for Vendetta' tonight ... really good film! I thoroughly enjoyed it. The weather was neat when we came out ... foggy, and then some lightning later on. There hasn't been a thunderstorm in ages, its nice to see/hear a big one once and awhile.