I couldn’t find my keys this morning as I was trying to leave the house. This never happens to me but it’s only to be expected it should start happening now that I have a new job that expects me to arrive — and rightly so — at a certain time.
I did find them, OK, my husband found them, in his key/catchall basket instead of in my key/catchall basket. I did leave the house late but made up the time on the road. That same husband doesn’t call me “Goggles Pizano” for nothing.
While on the road, at a stop light I assure you, I got out my prescription sunglasses even though it was cloudy and gray and 7:45 a.m. While transferring my regular prescription glasses to the eyeglass case, I dropped them and they landed on the floor mat beneath my feet. Bad words were said.
Normally I am praying for all green lights, especially since I was running late, but today I was looking for red so I could pick them up. I finally got my red but all I managed to do was push the glasses further away before the light turned green. This happened one more time before I stopped for coffee at McDonald’s – because no matter how late I am I will be stopping for coffee – and finally was able to get them off the floor.
It was then I noticed they had been laying lens-down on the mat, being scraped all around the nubbly plastic mat mixed with road salt from our already lovely Pennsylvania winter.
2011 continues to disappoint and we’re still in Week 1 . . .
For those of you unfamiliar with the legendary Goggles Pizano, in an episode of the Flintstones Fred drives Barney’s car in the Indianrockolis 500 and Fred’s driving name is Goggles Pizano.
While Googling the correct spelling of “Pizano”, I discovered an Urban Dictionary definition. I will NOT be sharing that with you here but I assure you I had no prior knowledge of its latest definition and I also assure you I am sorry I have that knowledge now.
Chances are if you don’t know who the Flintstones are, you already know the Urban Dictionary definition. And those of you who know Fred & Co. should leave it at that. I beg you. Don’t bare the burden I now carry.
