Braille ATMs & platform boots in the Astrodome

I have been having one of those times where things are striking me as kinda more crazy than usual but up until this second, I have tried to keep quiet and watch what is going on and how others are reacting. Try to fly under the radar as it were. Somethings just don't make sense. Case in point: why is there a braille option on the drive-thru ATM? First off, even if blind folks were driving, how would they know they were at the bank, much less at the 24inches available for the ATM box? Ok, let's say they get to infront of the ATM ( I have a hard time doing this sometimes without scraping the side of the car and I'm just in my RayBans), how do they know they hit the one that has the braille option (granted that is where the ability to read braille is key)? I just am glad that I wasn't the salesperson who had to market that extra feature. Just saying.
This morning, while moisturizing, I hear the lineup for the World's Biggest Rodeo. Now this is a HUGE event in my book and requires more planning than a modest wedding. You have to follow western wear etiquette or else risk becoming a social pariah. I mean if you show up in a straw hat during rodeo, you are soooooooooooo gone. OR, if you wear a big rodeo championship buckle that YOU did not PERSONALLY win, it might as well say "POSER". Bling and big is essential but it has to be authentic. It is very tricky and should not be taken lightly. Now, personally, I am so on point in this area, that I am often mistaken for a C&W performer. Perhaps it is the imprint caused by watching Porter Waggoner on the color tv at my grandparents, but regardless, I love wearing rhinestone clothes. The influence of Porter and his discovery of Miss Dolly Parton is not to be taken lightly. My love affair with rodeo fashion is so pure that a vendor tried to sell Tom Berenger an 18k Gold Horse- head ring with ruby eyes that he felt sure would win my heart. Tom B. had to explain that it is "dress up" for me, like Carnivale, only different. One of my favorite events is the annual Go Texan Rodeo Fashion Show. Everyone in Genoa City and our sister community on the other side of the lake, Pine Valley, comes out in full Roy Rogers/ Dale Evans regalia. And starts drinking at 10am. Until 7pm. Some years we have a casino where you play with fake money for drink tickets ( performance=reward).After last call at 7pm, those still able, head out to a real live honkytonk called (of course) BigTexas.Tom Berenger takes off that Friday from his usual gig as a free-lance Oil Field Fire Fighter so we can have "quality time". Tom really can rock that Stetson.And the Jack&Coke. By 3pm, TomB is what I call "All Jacked up". Tom B. does not dance, just laughs a lot and continuously tells me how pretty my teeth are and that I have perfect gums. I digress.

The news that caused my concern was the rodeo lineup of performers. I had to put down my concealer when I heard the blastfromthepast band KISS was included with performers from the Country Music Hall of Fame. This hit me like news of the impending arrival of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.This just does not work for me. This is like dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. What are they thinking? Granted, the KISS men have big hair (a staple at the rodeo) and leather (MORE THAN FABULOUS on a bullrider but just WRONG on a 63year old Jewish guy with a belly). KISS have boots, but they are 6 inch platforms, not Justin Ropers. Their performance does not make you want to God Bless America, remember your faded love, or take a Louisville slugger to both tail lights.It makes me want take a "medicine" because by now my hat is getting tight and my head is hurting.Since I have "hathair", my look cannot be sacrificed by hat removal. It is unthinkable(both KISS & my raw head at the arena).It has nothing to do with Rodeo. It's just wrong. Didn't they have to send in a playlist? Did't anyone think that a band who is best known for "I just want to rock&roll" does not translate into Rodeo? Am I the only one that understands this is the same as going to see the Giant Penquins at the Tropical Rainforest in Galveston? It is not their natural habitat! If those penquins get loose, they will stand about the same chance in 100 degree weather & 98 percent humidity as those KISS guys in a herd of cowboys.Wouldn't be prudent. Could have been avoided. Should never have been suggested. Just plain wrong. That's all I'm gonna say about that. Until 48 days when rodeo kicks off!