Skipped Out

I’m afraid I skipped over Saturday due to my housecleaning frenzy but it was worth it to have a semi-clean house for my friends. I wore an icepack for nearly 2 days and it seemed to help a bit though it was and is still painful and I note that I am still walking like a rocking horse. Can a bad habit develop in 24 hours? I fear so. A good habit takes 3 weeks but bad habits pounce on you out of nowhere! Why is that?

Rain is pouring down. It started as a gentle rain but I can now hear the pressure is harder. It is so discouraging but I have surrendered to the inevitable. More floods, more hayfields instead of lawns, more mosquitoes. I expect we will have cholera or black plague soon. J

Our elevator at work has those little televisions where we get hits of news updates most of which are useless bits of information. On Friday they had one about the cost of the royal family on taxpayers the number of which I cannot remember but it was naturally in the millions of dollars range. But for me on Thursday afternoon I was hit with another inconvenience of the upcoming royal visit. I was caught on Deerfoot in slowed down (call it parked) traffic because the police were doing a pre-run of their security convoys or whatever they called it. Despite the fact that I was going south and they were way up in the north end the south flow of traffic was slowed down because they were rubber necking to see what was going on in the north lanes. Nothing was going on except they were stopped. People, why do you look over on the north side when it isn’t affecting us? Keep moving please. Do you know how many times this happens. For no apparent reason south traffic will slow down just because people are slowing down to see the accident on the north side. It blows me away that adults are so curious to look at heaven knows what (because I do NOT look, I do NOT even GLANCE over that way, I do NOT want to see anything, twisted metal, bodies, nothing. Spare me the pain please). The 2 ladies I used to car pool with did it too. I was astonished.

I am the kind of person that has rather a pragmatic view of certain events. For example, I am pretty darn sure that if someone who murdered a member of my family was going to the electric chair I would NOT be one of the family sitting there watching it. Are you crazy? I don’t think I would get any satisfaction in seeing this criminal get fried. I wouldn’t be in court listening to the evidence and hearing this, that or the next thing. Of course I want the justice system to catch the criminal, try him and convict him. Would I be angry and want to kill him (or her) myself? Of course, in the heat of the moment we are all passionate for the kind of brute justice that the uncivilized feel. However, once sanity sets in I feel pretty sure that I would prefer to have the justice system work without my presence. I’m not sure what the law requires but I don’t think the family members are required to be in court and for sure they aren’t required to be at the execution (talking about the USA now as we don’t have capital punishment in Canada, thank God). It really surprises me when I hear the mother of the victim was one of the ones at the execution and I wonder what she was thinking or feeling. I do understand why most families are at court, at least they are only hearing things but even that, I don’t think I could bear hearing it even after a year or two since the crime was committed. Nothing I would hear would bring my loved one back. On the contrary it would bring back all the horror of the time.

That’s just my personal feeling. I want to avoid the ugly things in life.