Foolery from Jeanne: Life’s Too Short to Play by ALL the Rules

At the bottom of our About Us page, you’ll notice I put out a call for your Foolish stories. Jeanne of the lost garden of senua blog has taken me up on the offer:

My favorite foolery is a small toy my boyfriend bought for me. It turns off TVs at a distance within 5-52 seconds. The toy absolutely ROCKS. When i go in for chemo (I have inoperable colon cancer), i turn off the TVs in the adjoining rooms. And i routinely turn the TV off while my children are watching a movie. Because i haven’t told them about the toy; they think there’s something very wrong with the TV.

I’ve got one of those devices as well. MUCH fun and highly useful in noisy restaurants that insist on playing a dozen TVs on every channel.

My second favorite tomfoolery is our bell. You know, the type that you ding to get the attention of the desk clerk who is paying no attention to you while talking to a friend on her cell while you wait patiently to check into a hotel. We take one with us everywhere we go. That way we have one when there isn’t one. Clerks and people behind counters everywhere are baffled by the bell. They didn’t put it there; it wasn’t there when they waited on the LAST person. Periodically we leave the bell if we think it is needed and buy a new one.

Let’s all start carrying a bell around. My favorite line, though, is in her sign-off:

We do other things too because life is too short to play by ALL the rules.

I think we just found our next T-shirt slogan. Thanks for sharing, Jeanne! Keep it Foolish.