Lunch With A Friend

I'm still friends with the very first woman I met after moving to California from Minnesota.  Her initials are KRM.  Yeah, she has known me for 27 years.  Yes, she still talks to me on her own volition.  

We were on the same bowling team at Nave Lanes in Novato back in the late 1980's.  We would order pink ladies from the bar and proceed to get totally inebriated while trying to bowl competitively.  I quit bowling after breaking my fingernails all the time.  No, my crappy average and gutter balls had NOTHING to do with it ;)  Besides, the cafe had really good french fries.  Attempting to bowl with nails AND greasy fingers was a recipe for disaster.  Oh well.....  Now Vintage Oaks Shopping Center stands in the place of Nave Lanes.  Too bad....  it was kind of a cool building...

I'm getting off track.  In case you all have not noticed, I tend to keep the friends I make unless you are a *TOTAL* asshole.  In that case I just wipe you clean of my consciousness.  Anyway....Years later KRM and I still share our souls.  Yesterday we met up for lunch as her schedule is just as insane as mine. We were talking about how our children are coming of age and now how our kids' "boyfriend" and/or "girlfriend" play a significant role in the daily household routine.

KRM was lamenting on how her daughter's boyfriend (age 20) likes to spend the night at her house, which just in itself already has her irritated.  'Boyfriend' also went out and bought a puppy that he also now brings to the house.  Mind you, KRM already has two dogs of her own to care for.  It's not that KRM hates animals, it's the fact that her daughter and boyfriend thought nothing of bringing in yet ANOTHER animal in for her to care for without asking.  Neither one of them are out scooping poops in the back yard or taking dogs for walks. 

The moral of the story is that 18-25 year-olds have NO CLUE!  Just where is the line between being a good parent and kicking their ungrateful, irresponsible, clueless asses out into the street? 

Novato, California

This is where Tiburon and Sausalito wannabes live.  See, it's the most northern city in Marin and we all know how much status shit means to these materialistic morons.  Too bad they have not realized that Marin is so 70's and 80's and it's now Sonoma County that is the cool place to live. Shhhhhhhhh please don't tell them as we don't want them all living up here, anyway. 

They are the soccer moms, SUV driving conformists, bland, unoriginal, status-hungry, phoney, blah, blah, blah, blah.... They are mesmorized by bright, shiny objects.  Novato has no soul.  Everything is plastic and phoney.  Even all of their dining establishments suck (reflection of their bland population).  Tell me of one outstanding place to eat in Novato?  I guess they do have a couple of Mexican restaurants as I suppose they all need a central place to scope their cheap labor and then bitch about illegals. 

I suppose the thing that pisses me off about these people is how they somehow think they are better than everybody else.  They will bitch if you car is the wrong color.  They will bitch if their sandwich has avacado in the middle and NOT on the bottom.   They will bitch if their little Lilly doesn't get the teacher for first grade that will totally set Lilly's course for life.  Give me a break, you high-maintenance asswipes. 

Of course, there are exceptions... native residents and long-timers shun the more recents and rightly so.