It's Spring fer sure

[Tin-Can]

Saw a female Robin outside my apartment 2 weeks ago, eating one of the berries off the ground (I don't know what kind, but I hate them. They get tracked into the house all the time   the berries, not the Robins   )

Then Saturday just after the rain stopped here, saw a nest on one of the lower branches of one of the pine trees in front of my building. Had both mom and dad Robin in it.  Eggs....????  don't know.  

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I have a lot of fun with the dimbulb clerks where I sometimes buy nightcrawlers.  When they ask "Are ya goin' fishin'?"  I reply "No, these are for my lunch."  After their incredulous looks, guffawing or retching I continue with "Yeah, with a little marinara sauce they make great spaghetti.  But they sometimes tickle going down."

 LOL, last time we bought some nightcrawlers the new cashier at the checkout was trying to figure out  how to charge for them as she was looking them up on her cheat sheet, she asked are these worms, I said no they are night crawlers she had no idea what those were so I just said really fat worms, she about threw up and put the container down fast and found them on her cheat sheet so we were in business but she wasn't about the pick the container up to put it in a bag - LOL. She just handed me the bag! You'd have had a good time chatting with her about using them for spaghetti.

   I have a favorite Maverick I stop at any time I'm heading north from my place to Willard or the River. Several years ago they got a new young girl cashier. My son and I stopped in early one Saturday morning. My son saw the new cashier, and looked at me and said, "ahh Dad, she's cute, don't give her a hard time."  Well, my son and I have both worked numerous years in gas stations and C-Stores and we are well aware of the idiots that sometimes come thru. But we are also well aware that the last generation just don't seem to know how to make change, or much of anything else without the register telling them how.  

So, I picked up a 12 pack of worms and some various snacks. The young lady didn't bat an eye. Rang it all up, and as she was bagging it, she asks, trying to be nice, you guys going fishin ?  I look at my son and he just shakes his head knowing what's coming. I say, nope, we are just taking these out to wash them off.  That young lady must have a real joker for a dad, and without skipping a beat she looks at me and says "well sir you better keep the receipt, cuz if you don't catch anything, just bring them all back for a refund, but you got to bring them ALL back, we don't do pro-rated refunds." 

My son dang near choked on his coffee and laughed at me all the way to Willard Bay that morning.  For almost 2 years, that young lady was in the store every weekend that I stopped, and she ALWAYS had a snappy answer to my stupid come-backs.  She impressed me as one of the smartest millennials  I ever met, and she NEVER had her phone to her face while she was working.