This morning I was forced to watch a local TV channel because once again my FOX connection is missing from my bedroom TV. I can barely tolerate to watch CNN or Headline News so I put on the local news to see what was going on. It was pretty 'intense' as these types of programs tend to be, with the reporters out on a crime scene making dramatic use of hand gestures, expression, and theatrics when describing something which happened hours ago. The latest report was that the crime scene tape was removed and the investigation moved up the road a piece. There is only so much that can be said 12 hours after the crime took place.
This actually was rather big news for our area with the late afternoon murder of a young mother and the abduction of her 10 year old daughter. The murderer/sexual predator was captured early this a.m. in the woman's vehicle, which he stole, being pulled over in a traffic stop at the McDonald's just outside of Middleburg. This is a little too close to home, especially for my friends who live out that way.
Besides this dramatic story, there was a 'stock' story about how much more prevalent toy injuries are these days. I don't recall the time frame they used, but evidently kids are eating their toys, breaking parts off and hurting themselves with them, and so on. This brought to mind a trip to WI not long after we'd moved to FL. We were at the home of my brother-in-law for a visit where Justin played with some of his cousin, Kevin's, toys while the parents sat around chatting.
Later that night Justin was 'up in the night', as Mom likes to say, complaining as best he could at his young age about his ear. The next morning I called the doctor's office where we were patients only a few months before and they got us in. As Dr. Schmidt was examining him, he asked us when Justin had gotten tubes in his ears. We were stunned at that question since Justin never had tubes in his ears. "Hmmm..." he replied. He got a forceps and proceeded to pull out a little plastic piece of a toy from Justin's ear! What in the world?? What makes a guy think, "Here's a little piece of a toy which will fit perfectly in my ear..."? We were relieved he didn't have an infection or anything like that, just a simple piece of Kevin's old toys he had placed carefully in his own ear!
