OK, I haven't posted a diary in over three years, and my old ones are all focused on local political and environmental issues, so this is very new for me. But, this is a story about the extreme nervous energy OF Palin and INDUCED BY Palin. Here goes....
This evening, in an effort to expend my nervous energy awaiting the VP debate, I went to a well-known "bed bath" store to get some stuff for my daughters who are away at college. On impulse, I picked up one of those new Ped Eggs from a bin near the check-out.
Palin's opening remarks, as I recall, included both these expression: "darn it" and "you betcha".... with nary a closing "g" on anything in sight anywhere.
Oh help! Is she now going to promise Biden she will "try to find" stuff and "get 'em to ya"?
I had a choice: alcohol, or something else to distract me and dampen down the sheer outrage of having to listen to 90 minutes more of such crap.
Alcohol is too numbing. Hmmmmm.
Pet the dog? Yes that lowers blood pressure, but for some reason the damn dog couldn't sit still!!! Why???!!
OH NO! She just said "up there in Alaska"!! HELP!
What to do? I can't just SIT here and watch or I'll go NUTS!
I grabbed the plastic-encrusted Ped Egg and a ball point pen and eviscerated the damn package....
OH NO! She's talking about "Energy Independence" -- as if a 20 year horizon on oil production from Alaskan and off-shore reserves is going to FREE us from oil! HA!
Oh help.... the damn package won't open. What to do? I sure don't want to start picking my nose here..... but I can't just SIT and listen to this...!
Just as she's REFUSING to talk about McCain's record of thwarting deregulation in favor of TAXES (wha?), the Ped Egg comes loose from the package.
And. I. Start. SCRUBBING!
I am pround to say I now have the smoothest, pinkest, softest, feet in all of America.
Thanks to Sarah Palin.
So, please share
- What phrases she uttered that set you off into your own nervous habitry; and
- What DID you do to try to calm yourself and keep from hurling expletives (and physical objects) at the damn TV?