Dirty Ears

Summer always seems to bring out unsteady-ness. People honk their horns more, yell more, swear more. I know this because I hear them, outside my window, all the time. It's as if the heat is causing us to literally lose our cool. There also seem to be more accidents in the summer: cars have been ramming into each other around here. As though hypnotized, people don't watch where they are going, they aren't as focused and before you know it someone is heading face-first down a set of stairs like Beyonce in Orlando.

But within these mishaps we can always find humour (well, at least I can). For example, the horrible oil spill in Burnaby, BC yesterday: a massive spew that covered people's houses, etc. with over 1400 barrels of oil. Horrible stuff. Really. BUT! This morning I was in the grocery store and the headline on the Vancouver Sun said, "My Baby Still has Oil in his Ears", over a picture of a solemn looking woman holding her son. Horrible, right?...............................but funny? Yes. Just the way it was said and the picture. Yes. Pretty funny.

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