Have you heard the Tide with a touch of Downey commercial?

That is so annoying! Ohmygosh, take a look at it!

There is a lady, she must be a slave or something as she has that vacant mom look about her. The commercial asks, "Do you ever wish your kids would do just a little more?" There is some happy-crap whistling-working type music in the background...

And, the kids run out of the house leaving a huge mess on the table.

Cue the vacant look... and the whistling music...

Do you ever wish that hubby would do a little more?

And then show something that hubby maybe ought to do.

Cue the vacant look...

...whistling music... vacant vacuous cow-to-the-slaughter look...

What about Fido?

Cue the vacant look but maybe there is a connection there...

Maybe if you told the darned kids to clean up their mess... naw, that is just nuts... just remain mute and clean up after them! That makes for good citizens after all...

The other night, David and I were on our nightly 2.1 mile evening constitutional.

For those of you who don't frequent dictionary.com, that is a walk, of sorts. Snicker away!

Anyway, we found a snake in the gutter, unable to slither (that is what snakes do, FYI) up the curb. David and I decided he was a very poisonous snake. Yet, petite!

David tried to hit him with a PennySaver publication in a bag. But that did no good. This little snake just coiled and struck out mercilessly with his big fangs.

We walked home briskly, and assembled a really good snake-hunting kit: a car, a Blue Bunny rainbow sherbet container with snap-on lid, a FedEx envelope, a ducky-shaped cutting board and a pair of leather gloves.

We brought it all home and transferred the snake into an old beta jar. It was one of those big gallon-sized jobs. We covered it with that useless Glad Press N Seal junk.

You know what that damned snake did? It creeped us out by standing upright like Gary Larson snakes always do. Like a ruler.

Then, we found out that it was a plain ol' harmless Texas Brown Snake and let it loose in our back yard. But we told the neighbor boy that it was really big and that we let it loose in his yard. Just for fun.

This is a sign adjacent to a street in our subdivision.

What does it mean?

Are there children who lag and lounge about lazily on this street? Sloth-like children with moss collecting on their backs? That can't be what this sign means, as the kid on the sign looks like he's running pretty fast. More like FAST Children Playing. Perhaps using a race-car type of font!

Hmmm. Maybe they mean that other kind of slow. Hey! I don't think that's very nice at all!

Especially since most of the "slow" kids seem to be on the next block over. At least that's my opinion.