words and meanings

MONKU MONKU MONKU ... grandma used to mutter that when i'd be sitting there going on and on and on about schtuff. MONKU MONKU MONKU ... ever sit there and think about words and what they mean? i mean really think about what words mean ... not just the literal meanings, but all the connotations that people impose on words.

for example, i found this cool toy at WalMart (yeah, i even admit to WalMart LMAO!) ... it's a ball ... it doesn't bounce, or change color, or anything like that -- it's not that kind of ball. it's about 3 inches across, but its surface has all these long, dangly bits to it. and it's squooshy, you know? i think its supposed to be some kind of stress ball or something.

anyway, so there we are, a bunch of us, in this classroom just killing time by playing with this ball ... it stretches, it squooshes, it's basically one of those things that for some reason BLAM! it's a cool toy to play with even if you're just wayyyy to mature to play with kid toys, you know?

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and then someone just HAS to go an make a pretty disgusting comment about the ball. (did i mention that it is blue? yeah. so you can just guess what the comment is, right?) ...

i grabbed the packaging so i could argue back and

... OMGGGGGG according to the packaging, this product is labelled (this is a quote) ... "WILD BLUE HAIRY BALL" ... just imagine how totally stupid i felt that i hadn't even noticed what the stupid toy was labelled!

... so there i was, sitting there, turning just about every shade of RED while all around me, everybody is grabbing for the ball and giggling and joking around and i'm thinkin ... well.

should i have seen that coming? no pun intended either. i hate when i put my foot in my mouth!