Ramblings by Judy

Is it just me, or is Judge Judy getting more mean spirited than usual?

I was setting my TIVO yesterday and I happened to come across her program. She was yelling at this poor woman and insulting her. So what if the woman didn't want to pay the whole $900.00 for the dog that she bought because the seller could not produce the AKC papers showing the blood line of the cute dog?

One of these days one of the parties in her court is just going to lose it really let her have it. There is no excuse for her behavior. I do not call that enteraining.

If that's what people call entertaing we might as well watch the Jerry Springer Show, and waste our time altogether.

Posted by Judy at 05:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Did you ever go to the supermarket and use on of those computerized checkouts? I use them when I only have a couple of items to checkout.

Today I had Super Glue and orange juice (weird combination, huh).

So I get to the checkout and the computer says "Please scan club card".
I do this, and then the computer says "Please scan first item" I scan the Super Glue, the computer says "Please place item on the conveyor". I do this. Immediately the conveyor reverses and the computer says "Please
place item on conveyor, credit $2.19". So now I go through the whole routine again,this time the computer says "Please place item on conveyor", I do this and immediately the conveyor reverses and the computer says "Please place item on conveyor, credit $2.19", This time I scan the Super Glue and I don't put it on the conveyor (I figured it was too light to register on the conveyor) and the computer says "Please place item on conveyor" but instead of placing the Super Glue on the conveyor, I scan the orange juice and put that on the conveyor. The computer liked that idea.

The computer says "Please select method of payment", I select cash and the computer says "Please deposit cash to the left of the scanner"
at which point I say "PLEASE SHUT UP ALREADY'.

Posted by Judy at 06:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

"Innocent until proven guilty." These are the words that are used in all court cases, that is, if it's not traffic court. In New York city you are allowed to make a delivery to a location if you have commercial plates on your vehicle. We have an SUV with commercial plates and my husband delivers vitamins to small stores in Manhatten. At least once a week he gets a parking ticket. Because we have the commercial plates we can park where the trucks park. Every week he gets a parking ticket. It's ridiculous.

Every week he goes to traffic court. He has a stop around the corner from traffic court. He makes sure to serve the store. Then he goes around the corner to traffic court..He shows the judge the receipt for the delivery where he got the parking ticket and every week he is found "not guilty".

Don't you think when he gets back the car ANOTHER PARKING TICKET.
We can't win.

Posted by Judy at 07:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Last night I checked my E-Mail to see if one of my children E-Mailed me. When the computer uploaded them, it showed that I had 19 messages. By the time I got to check my messages there was nothing for me, it had all been spam.

Thank goodness for spam blockers. One time I went on vacation and for some reason my spam blocker decided to go on vacation also. When I got home I had 900 messages, 98% of them were spam.

Now, my question is, my spam folder has 3082 pieces. When is it considered full? Does it reach a certain point and then overflow, and all of the spam in folder goes back into my E-Mail? This kind of thing keeps me awake at night.

Posted by Judy at 01:28 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

How come whenever a Daddy has a golf day he goes and plays golf. When Mommies have a golf day they go and do laundry.

My daughter and my son-in-law have a deal. Every once in a while , he goes to play golf and she stays home with the kids (as if she doesn't stay home wih the kids all of the time) and then on another day he takes the kids away and she has the house all to herself and can do whatever she wants. Most of the time she does laundry.

I never saw a family with so much laundry. But she's content to do the laundry at her leisure.

I'm glad my daughter is happy. I personally am content doing ironing. I guess we're just a very clean family.

Posted by Judy at 07:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Well it finally happened. We finally closed on the stupid building we were selling.

The fact that we closed on the building does not necessarily mean that we walked away with any money. By the time the attorneys got through with us, we were lucky to leave with our skin intact.

For those of you who have bought or sold real estate you know what I'm talking about. How about the $901.50 realty transfer fee to record the deed. Don't we pay real estate taxes to the county to pay these people to work? Isn't filing a deed part of their work?

This particular transaction had four lawyer fees. And then as if they didn't charge enough in their fees, they also charge for their expenses: telephone, mailings, copies, faxes, etc. Why doesn't that come out of their fee?

We sell vitamins. What if I went to a customer and gave him his bill for the product and then I gave him another bill for the gas and tolls to deliver the product? I don't think so.

Posted by Judy at 01:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

How come fruit doesn't taste like fruit anymore? A peach tastes like tasteless mush, a banana tastes like a piece of paper, an apple tastes like cardboard, A rose doesn't smell like a rose anymore either. The thing, is all of these items look the way they used to. But theyr'e not the same as before. Is it because we are polluting the planet so badly that nothing grows the way it should?

Whenever someone wants to explain the taste of a new meat, they always says it tastes just like chicken. If this keeps up even chicken won't taste like chicken. It may look like chicken but it won't taste like chicken.

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