What happened to manners?

So when I started writing one thing I didn't want to do was to come off as whiny or morose or even crotchety. But damn it I can't help myself here. What has happened to common manners? I am the kind of guy who has always opened the door for my wife whether it's the car door, the front door or even if we are entering a building, that's just the way I was raised. In fact I noticed my son does this for his girlfriend to and I really like that.

So what brought this to mind is that for the past week while at work I have had some instances where I am  passing close by someone going in the opposite direction. I will turn my body sideways a bit because I'm a bit large and the hallway is narrow and I will say excuse me. Shouldn't that other person also say excuse me back? This happened about 8-10 times in this past week and I'm thinking why doesn't anyone say excuse me anymore? Another thing while I'm ranting. Why do people think it's ok to just turn their head and sneeze? No one wants to breathe your germs. Either use your hand to cover your mouth or grab a tissue. And the same goes with a cough. I've seen people, usually guys, who will be walking along and just cough and keep walking not caring who is around. Sometimes it's one of those coughs that even makes the person jerk a little but they still don't cover it up. Use your hand or your arm and cover it up. Lastly was this idiot at Carls Jr. who thought he could just burp out loud. I gave him a stare and he apologized but the dumb ass gave one last burp on his way out. Just totally unnecessary. Ok I got that off my chest. Thank you for listening

A funny Halloween story

The story I'm about to tell you I feel is pretty funny and I hope I can do it some justice. I had actually forgot about this until my wife reminded me about it last night. So sit back and enjoy what I hope will be a good recount of this particular Halloween night.

So this story happened about 4 years ago I think. Of course it was Halloween night and my wife and I were sitting on the front porch with a cauldron full of candy to pass out. Also with us was a friend who was dressed as a gorilla and was scaring passersby. It was all in good fun and I think the people passing by were having a good time with the scary gorilla. Anyway we didn't have any spooky music to play so I got the idea of using the laptop and finding some good Halloween sounds or music on youtube and playing it . So after some searching around I found what I felt was some decent spooky sounds and  we used the dinner tray that we had set up on the front porch to set the laptop on with the screen facing the street and played the spooky sounds I found. Well we had quite a few families coming and going and we were having a good time looking at the different costumes coming up to the house. At some point my wife walks down to the sidewalk to stretch her legs and she looks back to where I'm sitting on the porch and screams. I ask "what happened?" she says "look at the monitor". I look over at the monitor and now I notice the large writing on the screen from the video we had been playing. And there written on the screen in what seems to be some pretty large font "TESTICLES.CA". Oops! So I quickly change the screen and we all had a good laugh wondering just how many people with their kids might have seen the writing in the video. Please feel free to leave any humorous Halloween stories you might have.

Finally it's October

 Now that October is here not only is it my wife's birthday month but it's also time for the Halloween decorations to come out. Of course at our house we usually have some kind of Halloween decoration up year round. When our kids were younger we used to really go all out with the decorations but now that they are older we don't put out near as much. The first few pieces are already hanging in the front yard or placed on the porch. We plan to get some purple lights to place around the bushes we have in the front yard so hopefully in the next week or so I will get that done. I do miss the days of taking the kids trick or treating. It was fun going around seeing how the houses were decorated and hopefully run into a haunted house along the way. But again the kids are older so we pretty much set up on the front porch play some spooky music and maybe scare someone if we are lucky.