A picture triggers too many words.

nothing really interesting has happened to be lately besides funneling at a family party. after partying at the most red neck spot i could find and joining the band for one hoorah. I dont know what it is about my alcohol intake and bands.. i just wanna get my Travis tritt on.. in a bad way.

speaking of bad. today i realized what my friend Scott is always telling me to do "think about what you're about to say.. then don't say it" and why i should actually do it.

it was early in the morning and a Monday. that equation always adds up to horrible small talk for me. i was standing in the break room at breakfast getting my hot water and oatmeal ready when i notice a white coffee mug on the counter. It was clearly a plain mug you can bring to a store and have a picture printed on. This one had Snooki's face.

Snooki was perfectly portrayed with her tanned skin, long dark locks and bright pink duck face, pouty lips pointed due north at the camera. Now the camera was positioned ever so "accidentally" to stare straight down her lady junks to the leopard bra. Come on now.. who the heck would want to drink coffee out of those sugar bags? Any how, I scanned the mug for ammo because I was shooting off rounds of judgement like nobody's business. Yippee, Ki Ya mother... well ya know. As I turned the mug I also saw a tan boy standing there with his shirt off on the beach. who would wear a t-shirt opened at the beach? Snooki's boyfriend. That's who. Why on God's green earth would anyone purposely put their mugs on a mug?

The owner of the mug walks in and it was totally unexpected. A nice simple looking woman, with wiry hair and bad glasses. She smelled of old musk and the inside of an old book. When I looked at her with a cunning grin and said "you're a jersey shore fan?" She looked at me oddly. I pointed to the mug "snooki and her boyfriend?" she just stared and then looked at me and laughed "oh, that show. no way!" So I asked her then very inquisitively.. "then why do you have her on your mug, that's an awful sight first thing"  Her final reply? Something about that being a picture of her children on a family vacation...

THAT'S the best picture you have of your children? take a picture of someone else's kids then, or a put a bag on theirs.