The Pony has selective hearing. He will put his earbuds in for a 90-minute ride in A-Cad with HM and Farmer H. If asked a specific question, he will ignore. When a stinkeye wafts his way, he will pull out one earbud, and say he was listening to music. OR he might pointedly point out that he put in his earbuds as a signal that he was NOT available for questioning.
However... don't think The Pony might miss something that he finds interesting. Nobody is going the tell The Pony, "You snooze, you lose!" after an opportunity slips away.
We went to the casino on Tuesday. The first part of our drive has Farmer H cruising through the countryside for 30 miles before we reach the interstate highway. As usual, The Pony was earbudded. I was making conversation with Farmer H, trying to keep my mind off the rain-covered blacktop. LITERALLY keep my brain in my uncracked skull and off the pavement by forcing Farmer H to stay alert and not zone out thinking about his Storage Unit Store business.
"Oh, did you see the article in the paper about the church that burned. I'm pretty sure it was along here somewhere. It was even on the city news channels."
"Yeah. I think it was this one right up here. [Farmer H nodded his head toward a faded brick church on the left.] See it? It doesn't look like anything happened to it, though. No damage."
"No. Not that one. It was a white church that burned."
"Um. Mom? I'm pretty sure you were just referring to the color of the church building, but you really shouldn't be talking about a WHITE church burning. That's very unusual, you know."
"There it is right there! It's got two holes in the roof. Even though they covered them with plywood. See the yellow tape around it? It's actually in pretty good shape for a fire."
"Yes, Pony. SEE the church? It's covered with white siding. That's what I was talking about. Not brick."
"Well, you have to agree, around here, it most likely WAS a white church..."
"Pony. Sometimes, a church is just a church. You can go back to listening to your music."
He would probably be shocked that my losing crossword scratcher had THIS word in it:
I am increasingly annoyed that everyone immediately assumes skin colour is the issue whenever the words black or white are mentioned. Are we supposed to just ignore those words forever now? I have several black items of furniture. What do I call them now? A very dark shade of grey? FFS It's only an issue when people are being disrespected or otherwise treated wrongly simply because of skin colour.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteThat's what the media is pumping out. They want division. Maybe you could say you have 'furniture of color.'
I got revenge for The Pony's assumption, though... coming up.
The media is an ass.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteYes. The media makes people ASSume things, using much opinion and little fact.