… just incredulous. This evening I found a barely chewed wad of gum placed on my car’s rear windshield. A Kleenex to deal with another’s saliva and — when I get to it — some Krud Kutter will do the trick and clean it up. But I’m left wondering about this gum depositer.
Were you raised by wolves? … No, no, that couldn’t be it. Wolves have a pack mentality, and you would have been bitten and snarled at for such attitudes and behaviors.
Were you in a particular idiosyncratic mood to stick gum to a car? If so, wouldn’t your own car have sufficed? If you’re a kid, wouldn’t your parents’ car have filled the bill?
Are you just in that much of a daze that even simple common sense behaviors elude you? If so, stop eating the donuts and Coco Puffs for breakfast. Start exercising and getting some oxygen-rich blood to your brain.
Well, like I said. I’m not mad. Just a little confounded.
4 Comments
July 23, 2008 at 12:10 pm
That’s disgusting.
I’m amazed at the level of “ick” that some people feel is appropriate self expression.
July 23, 2008 at 7:40 pm
jsx,
Since you note that it was barely chewed did you consider that perhaps the chewer had only placed it there temporarily?
They may have intended to come back and retrieve it had you not moved the car.
I think this is your fault.
-wb
July 26, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Would you believe that when my husband and I came out of Kohl’s this evening someone had stuck gum to the side mirror? Either one person is making their way around Howard County tagging autos with their nasty gum or its becoming popular to dispose of gum on cars!
August 3, 2008 at 7:28 am
One of my fondest memories as a kid was the smell of the gum powder within the pack of baseball cards
I was after. Was only worth a few chews and than I dumped it.
I have witnesses that I was in Annapolis the evening of July 26th.