Ever hear the one about

the guy who walks in to a Sam's Club, shows a Illinois Drivers License, fills out a credit application which includes filling in a Social Security number and receives $10,000 credit on a temporary card, then proceeds to spend $9,000 of that money in the automotive department? The punch line is that all of the information on the license and application belong to my husband...but neither the dude's picture on the license AND on the back of the actual Discover card, nor the dude himself is actually my husband. The detective on the case said he saw the guy and three friends get the card make the purchases and leave the store on the surveillance tapes. Lotta good that does, knowing what he looks like is not helping us at this point.

What a hassle. We are not responsible for any of these charges or any of the $2,000 worth of on-line purchases this guy has made. But we do have to call and fill out fraud claims on all 15 or so other store credit applications he tried (thankfully) unsuccessfully to get. Don't know what this is going to do to our credit rating, or just how long this guy is going to go on getting stuff using Ts identity. Maybe we'll get to do one of those commercials where you see Tom but hear the dude's voice talking about his new tires and car stereo.

'sjust not cool.

if green should turn to grey...

Here's what I got on the way home today from K.

"Mommy, what if someone ripped off the sky?"

"Uh, what do you mean?"

"You know, just ripped it off from the earth, so there wouldn't be a sky anymore...we wouldn't be able to breathe, would we?"

Aren't kids supposed to ask, "Mommy, why is the sky blue?"

justice

I was putting away clothes in the girls' room when I heard K, who was sitting on her bed pronounce, "THE BABY OF JUSTICE!!!"

She was holding aloft the doll pictured above.

"What?" I said.

"It's the Baby of Justice," she replied in a really good imitation of the movie trailer guy's voice. "Saving babies everywhere."

"Wow," I said. "What does the Baby of Justice do?"

"Fights other babies...bad babies."

"Wow, like a superhero?" I ask.

Then E chimes in from across the room, "His alter ego is 'Justice Baby.' He's on the Supreme Court and no one knows that at night he's the "Baby of Justice"

E has recently become interested in the separation of powers to the point where she had me print out this graphic flow chart thing I found on line. She taped it over her bed, to study it. But I digress...

So now they're going to write stories about Justice Baby/Baby of Justice. (god I love my kids)