Yesterday Kate and I went to Norz Hill Farm, our local pumpkin picking paradise, to get our Halloween pumpkins.  We’ve done this the last two years and really have a good time each year.  This year I was feeling more energetic and we opted to do the farm tour as well.

They have a ton of your usual farm animals including cows, chickens, ducks and roosters however they had two very unique animals that I really enjoyed.  I’ve always thought emus were funny.  Something about their appearance and name that just made it fun for me to say and laugh about.  Norz Hill had an emu and I had even more fun telling it that it had a funny name.  To which the emu responded quite vocally … if you can call what it does vocal.  When they “speak” it is by making a noise like a drum!

The even more interesting one was a hybrid donkey and zebra mix.  This animal known as a zonkey was purchased from an Amish farm that bread the animal because donkeys are protective of their land and zebras are natural hearders.  They used the animal to keep their sheep hearded and scare off predators.  Here is a picture of the zonkey stealing corn from somebody who thinks thumb rings are acceptable fashion.

Zonkey!

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So, I receive a group of emails from somebody I do not know informing me of their travel itinerary and what not.  Since I have no idea who the heck this person is I inform them they’ve written to the wrong person.  Two days later, another booking email, this time about their return trip and a comment,

It’s going to be an early morning.

Since I have already been nice about them emailing the wrong person, I now slip into Dave mode and respond with,

That’s great … Who are you?

I was quite wrong in thinking this would have ended it as I received,

is that a rhetorical question that doesn’t make sense to me?

Alright I figured I should just AGAIN put it all out on the table,

Well, you’re emailing somebody who has no idea who you are … repeatedly.

Alright.  Problem solved.  She’ll stop emailing me all this information.  NOPE!!!

you only get one guess as to who is coming to lax this thursday, staying at your apt and leaving on sunday.

hint 1: try reading the intinerary that is included in this email…scroll down to TRAVELER NAME.

are all boys this dumb?

Oh dear lord.  Not to mention that I knew her name from the FROM header, and that she should have seen my name was not that of whom she was emailing.  Furthermore, she was emailing my gmail account which forwards to my waxman.org and the response was CLEARLY from waxman.org, with a freak’n signature.  At this point I respond with,

Are all women this thick?  YOU’VE EMAILED THE WRONG PERSON.  I DO NOT KNOW YOU, I DO NOT LIVE IN LA, IN FACT I HATE LA!

Finally with this the concept that she has been emailing the wrong person begins to set in and I receive an apology that she meant to email somebody else … no shit.

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Today I was in the Route 206 Farmers Market, a local produce shop.  I’d say it was a real farmers market but it has a Bores Head Deli and a fresh bread section and also sells salsa, chips and Wonder Bread.  Regardless, it’s a market and it’s full of produce … and it’s staffed by the dyslexic:

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http://www.reason.com/blog/show/127465.html

I was linked to this brief article and image this morning.  Kate having family in Detroit I always tend to read the articles I see about the area.  Flint, MI (from my understanding a section of the greater Detroit area) has been notated as being a very violent and crime filled location.  The police department is trying to fight the issue; however I think they’re going about it the wrong way.  They’ve recently put a law into effect that will stop crack in the city.  No, not the drug … ass cracks.  I really hope they have some more serious law prevention ideas in store.

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In retail it is very important to place products in the area of your retail outlet that would serve them the best; or drive them as an impulse buy. This is why you find candy bars, sodas and gift cards at the checkout isles of your supermarket and why you’ll find coolers by the frozen food, grill supplies near the butcher section etc etc.

Obviously somebody forgot to tell this CVS store Kate and I visited about the importance of where you place items. Somehow I think these not only shouldn’t be sold near each other, but in fact they kind of conflict with one another.

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