Interesting.....But Stupid! Part Deux...

Thanks to PVM for giving me this little tidbit...

The Quote you posted was from Laugh-In.
Arte Johnson used to dress as a German soldier and peek out from behind a potted palm and say 'veeeerrrrry interesting' in a good thick German accent. After that catch phrase he would add some commentary on either the scene that had just preceded his or the world in general. One night he was interrupted by Ruth Buzzi, she interjected the '...but stupid' line. After that Arte Johnson would use the whole line 'Verrrry interesting, but STUPID' regularly.

Speaking of stupid, I have a little story for the two people who read my website. The other day, I was getting out of the shower, and I heard a baby crying outside. I didn't really think anything of it because I know that my neighbor had his window open, and he might have a baby and the baby might be crying. That's what babies do. So about 10 minutes pass and this child is still crying. So I go outside on my patio to dust off my shoes (we had been to Red Rock Canyon the day before) and I see a toddler, maybe 2 years old walking around and crying. I look all around. No parents. An alarm goes off in my head. I put the aforementioned shoes on my feet and run outside. As soon as this little boy sees me, he stops crying. He's just totally stunned. It was really windy that day, and I'm sure he was scared standing there by himself, with no adults around. I look up and this woman is looking out her window down at the two of us. I ask her, "Is this your kid?" She replies, "No. Is it yours?" I shudder... "No way. How long as he been out here?" She says, "About 20 minutes. I though the mother was just sitting in the doorway or something, letting the kid cry." At that point I didn't know what to do. Should I take the kid into my house and call the police? I didn't want them to think that I was kidnapping or anything. I decided to go to the couple of condos around me and see if any doors were open or if anyone would want to claim their child. I figured they would freak out if there was a stranger standing at their door holding their child. If it wasn't theirs, they wouldn't think anything of this strange woman holding a child at their door. I knocked on a couple of doors. They weren't home. They must all be weekend warriors. Finally, I find a door wide open with a baby stroller sitting by the door. Gee, this must be it. So I knock really loud, and all I hear is that disturbing AOL voice say.... "GOODBYE" really loud. This man comes to the door and he looks at me and says, "Yes?" I'M HOLDING YOUR FUCKING CHILD IN MY ARMS, AND YOU DON'T KNOW ME. DON'T YOU THINK THAT IS A LITTLE STRANGE? That was my inner dialogue, my polite voice said, "Is this your child?" He laughs... LAUGHS... and says, "Oh, he must have gotten out again." AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I hand him his child in complete shock and walk away. I'm not able to articulate any sort of speech that should have been made at that point. But then again, me not being a parent, and not having my degree in child rearing, I'm glad that I didn't say anything. What if someone would have just come along and taken him? He didn't seem to have a problem with going places with strangers. I had good intentions, but what if someone came along, like a serial killer, or a child molester? THIS IS WHY SO MANY CHILDREN DISSAPEAR EVERY YEAR. The scary thing is that this is the second time something like this has happend that I know of first hand. My mother had a co-worker that found a child, without his shoes on, 4 blocks away from home. It makes me sick to my stomach. I decided to call the Police, just to have them intimidate this man into putting some new locks on his doors. When I called to check to see if they'd visited, the police made a record of the incident, and wrote that, "the father said that he would put new locks on the door." At least it's documented, and maybe he'll think twice about leaving his child alone for long periods of time.



On the lighter side, Leafman just sent me some pictures of Shawk, Laciel and I at Red Rock. I will get those posted when school ends.