Rambling musings

I’ve been doing this blog for 9 months now.  I’ve seen that it has received nearly 1500 hits and have heard that several of you regularly access it.  What I have found interesting is that I’ve never had any comments.  Maybe the site from Google doesn’t make that convenient or it could be that nobody has been stimulated to that extent.  Regardless, I would appreciate hearing from you either through the site or directly to my Email: loureiter@gmail.com.  Thanks

Here are a couple of rambling muses:

I was at the AARP Convention this weekend in downtown Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Convention Center.  Sure, I’m old, but I still learn each time I attend one of these.  But, my comment regards an issue with law enforcement at the Center.  I noticed a strange black plastic box in one of the large planters alongside the roadway at the entrance.  Being on somewhat high alert these days I mentioned it to a young Georgia State Trooper directing traffic.  He thanked me and I left, but I noted that neither he nor the Center officer went over to the suspicious package.  The next day the ‘suspicious’ package was in the same place.  This time, however, I looked closer and it turned out to be an exterminator mouse/rat trap.  Sure, I was somewhat amused and a trifle embarrassed.  In retrospect I imagine the Trooper had a decision to make: should I tell this guy he’s a dumb ass or should I simply say it’s a mouse trap.  Either one would have been okay.  Not saying anything could have resulted in another person making a big stink.  Like the Fire Chief I mentioned in one of my last posts…”Be Nice!”

My wife had a similar experience with a different ending.  Marilyn, who is an attorney and was a certified officer and reserve deputy in Florida, noticed a K9 unit outside a restaurant she and one of our daughters went into.  It was one of those hot and humid days in Northern Georgia.  She asked the deputy whether he had any concern about his dog partner out in the SUV.  The deputy pulled out a smaller device and showed her that he could see the vehicle was running, what the inside temp was, and how long he had been away from his partner.  She and I didn’t know they have these neat devices to protect their partner.  A simple explanation resolved the issue.

Another incident she had with a Georgia State Trooper shortly after we moved to George occurred during a traffic stop.  Marilyn tends to have a lead foot.  She mentioned to the trooper that she had been a deputy down in Florida.  He politely asked if she was carrying.  Marilyn told him she wasn’t and didn’t know the carry laws in Georgia.  The Trooper told her it was rather easy, if you didn’t have a gun you could go by any police station and they would give you one.  Of course he was joking.  Surprisingly she didn’t get a ticket.  Blondes and cops, what can I say?