Day 5 Things People Say

Spent the day in San Francisco, participating in the sports ritual of "us" and "them," them being the Dodgers, and we, the Giants lost...swept, as it were, over the weekend, right under the rug. OK, so we're tied, us and them, for 1st place. There's plenty of season left and plenty of emotional up and downs to go. I am grateful that team competition supplies us with a good dose of healthy thrash and bash, a whole lotta yelling and fist pumpin' but no blows (at least in baseball ((most of the time))). Still, not a lot of thinking going on in my head, and I will refrain from picking on any of the players, considering their performances today.

I didn't really do ANY critical thinking today, unless I count asking critical questions of my daughter-in-law about some recent gossip. I named the situation, she gave me some feedback that countered what I had heard. My views rocked back from teeter to totter and then balanced enough so I could get off. It helps to ask questions so you don't continue to work off bad information.

I wouldn't call this Type A critical thinking, just staying in the groove. I wasn't sure what I was going to write about today, and then one of my Facebook friends laid this out: "I just saw a guy in a raised truck with tires almost as tall as I am. I KNOW he's an ass-hole. That may seem presumptuous, but it's not."

He got a lot of agreement. He noted that no one disagreed with him. I'd say, we better be careful about this "us" and "them." I can't say a whole lot about monster trucks, monster boats, monster houses, monster jobs...but people have them. I'd feel real weird if that monster truck kid in the front seat was actually an EMT and kept my heart beating during some unspeakable trauma. Pick your own scenario. Fact is, the monster thing pushes your buttons. Why? Think about it. Just sayin'.