Big Box Blocks

“What, me worry? I’m not crated and there’s another big box of Greenies in the pantry. So what’s the worry?” (© image)

Ear plugs stuffed in. The drama, the scorn, the wrath begins.

How about a reality check instead of a cashable check.

“You cannot be serious. I cannot possibly show up to school with THAT.”

Watching the local “experts” brainwashing advising about the trends and must haves for back to school, I have to pity anyone outfitting college kids

Shiny blenders for all. A colorful “retro” trunk for extra storage. (“No, mom. The grey or olive green one in the attic won’t do. Dents do not make it vintage”)

An absolute must of a $200.00 coffee machine for the dorm. Kids getting the chic coffee these days. Parents just get the bills.

“Mom you don’t want people to think we are poor! Oh, I need this cute waffle machine, too. Iron? As in iron clothes? Why? There’s a cleaners across from campus.”

Talk about setting a kid up for future debt acceptance.

Hmm, how about an instant coffee jar wrapped with a note: “Pick courses that add value, study hard so you can afford better than this once you graduate and get a job.”

But what do I know. Social media is probably a better source.

Talk about being boxed in, back to school shopping and road construction aren’t the only reason for gridlock around here.

Two big boxes crated up and ready to roll-ish. It looked so good on paper.(Click2houston screenshot)

It’s the big boxes stored and snake bit from the start:

• A pair of enormous crates holding massive drill ship equipment for Samsung Heavy are being inched along together through Houston from the NW Houston manufacturing site to the Bayport Cruise Terminal. Major traffic delays on several roads and power outages are to be expected for several days as they crawl along hoping to not hit anything. (map of route)
• The massive crate scheduled to shut down I-45 Gulf Freeway Tuesday night has been rescheduled. (Ch 13 news)
• How big? the largest is 56 feet long, 24 feet wide and 27 feet tall, with the smaller being 30 feet long, 16 feet wide and 24 feet tall.
• Yep, you know that “best made plans” saying?  First night, a drunk driver ran into two motorcycle cops acting as escort. Seriously. It’s not like you can’t see these things and all the lights around them from some distance away. Maybe the driver, already having 2 other DWI charges, thought it was aliens landing and wanted to be the first to get cell phone footage to the news stations! Woo-whoo, not.
• Anyway, the logistics team took the night off last night …probably, trying to get rid of their crashing headaches. A whole bunch of people are wondering how that parade is going to manage getting from the west side of I45 to the east side in order to get to the port. They’ve decided to avoid overpasses by going up up and away on the fairly new and narrow flyover down NASA Rd 1…only not only is it a fairly steep grade, there’s that extra sharp tilted curve at the top. Not to mention it’s a flyover…elevated…What is it rated for, we wonder…Crash that sucker and you block the main evacuation route from Galveston and the coast right in the middle of hurricane season.

It’s gonna be fun.

Large crates moving through Houston area (screenshot.ABC13news)

Almost as much fun as the 50 little darlings who blocked the intersection in a major shopping/tourist/entertainment area recently to do burn-outs and donuts in their cars while their fireworks display boomed and sparkled – all recorded by drones and posted on social media. (See pictures here)

Cops? (**crickets**). The event performers who call themselves the “new car sports enthusiasts” and “Professional Drivers” (Pardon me while I get up from the floor from laughing.)

And, they said, we, the public, should all be grateful for the entertainment and spectacle. And you can catch it again on social media!!!! All about me, me, me. Well, at least they aren’t out shooting people, right?

Guess that checks off all the boxes

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

“Wake us when it’s over.” (© image)

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