Smiley Anders for August 26, 2008

• By SMILEY ANDERS
• Advocate columnist
• Published: Aug 26, 2008 - Page: 1B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.

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“Uncle Raoul” says, “Life has been very good to this old codger, but there are some little annoyances that sometimes keep my existence less than perfect.”

He lists his top 10:

1. Going through airport security.
2. Flying anywhere on any airline.
3. TV car and furniture dealer spokesmen who shout at me.
4. Junk mail.
5. Telephone calls from unknown callers.
6. Automated telephone systems that won’t let you speak to a human being.
7. Drivers who don’t signal turns.
8. Drivers exceeding the speed limit and constantly changing lanes.
9. Drivers who follow too closely while driving over 40 mph.
10. Wearing apparel marked “One size fits all.” “No size fits all.”

He asks, “Does this make me a curmudgeon?”

Yes, and it makes me one too …

Safe bets
Robbie Zeringue adds this to our seminar on football bets:

“I have an ongoing bet each week of football season.

“If LSU wins, I bet I’m happy. If they lose, I bet I’m hard to live with.”

Spanish Town North
Thanks to Al Bethard of Lafayette for the information (from Yankee Magazine) about the Quietside Flamingo Festival July 13-16 at South Harbor on Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

The festival celebrates the pink plastic flamingo, the official plastic bird of Baton Rouge’s Spanish Town.

Maybe we can send a delegation up there next year … 

Oops!
Due to a computer malfunction, I gave Mary Grace Simpson a grandson on Monday.

The lad, Kelly, who thought his pre-K T-building on wheels would be pulled around by a truck during classes, is not hers.