Things that go bump in the night......

"If a bullfrog had wings, it wouldn't bump his behind every time he hopped." Don King

Bumped into an old friend at the Piggly Wiggly the other day........ (Several stories there)...

One.. You might bump into someone you recognized, but they hadn't the foggiest idea whointhehell you were. Reminds me of the story of the lady who saw an old HS classmate - was kinda alarmed by how much he had aged... so much in fact, that she for the longest time she hesitated to walk up and say anything to him.. finally she did... "Bob? Do you remember me from High School?"... "No, what'd you teach?"

Two... Someone bumps into you.. They know, smile, praise, hug you, and you haven't the foggiest idea whointhehell they were. (Kinda gives one an idea to run up to someone you don't know and do the same thing - rendering them headscratching. Maybe ranking number 2 in grocery store fun behind putting random items in someone else's cart unbeknownst to them.)

Three.. true friends bumped into one another who recognize one another, catch up for a long time - making you forget half the things you came into buy so ya gotta go back.

Four.... Two people you don't know bumped into/recognize one another... They stand in aisle 7, gabbing quite loudly, there ain't room for Olive Oil to sneak around/past/between them... you wait, you listen, you're bored, you're in a hurry. For every one second we wait, they say it seems like three. They obviously don't care you're trying to get thru - they are engrossed in their yesteryear meet up. As you finally say "Could you excuse me?" your brain is thinking WOULD YOU GET THE HELL OUTTA THE WAY I JUST WANT A CAN OF CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP!

We, the seventh grade boys at Ridgeview long ago - remember seeing bumps on the gals who were a foot taller than us. Amazing how, by the time high school rolled around, some had even made a mountain out of a mole hill. Victor, you are a pig. Sorry. Kinda.

"Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture." Spencer Tracy.

Goosebumps. They made RL Stine enough money he once landed at #36 on Forbes list of best paid at $41 million.

What gives you goosebumps? I remember Jaws... Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.. Cold.. A flash mob. And long ago, HS girls who'd made mountains outta mole hills. Sorry. Again. Kinda.

The medical term for goose bumps is horripilation. I'm not making any correlation of horripilation and those HS girls from back in the day.

Toddlers. They bump, they get up, they go. Fun to watch. Well, not fun to see 'em bump - but fun to see them learn, grow - life's beginning lesson of "There's bumps in the road no matter what you drive."

"Speed bumps, I was thinking, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down'. Go over it real slowly and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life." Teri Garr

Had an uncle - he drove doting parents crazy as each/every time he cradled an infant to walk from room to room, he would always (purposely) bump his elbow on the door facing. Was actually kinda fun to see - if it wasn't your kid.

Wiki (Google's dad and Encyclopedia Britannica's son) tells us about the dance, 'The Bump'.. "The bump is a type of dance introduced in the 1970's. Two partners, generally one male and one female, bump their hips against each other to the beat of the song. Sometimes the dance can be more suggestive, with the female dancer bumping her hip against the male dancer's crotch area."

Ouch.

Bump - airline booting you off.

Baby bump. Bump against. Bump along. Bump and grind. Bump and run. Razor bumps. Bump that! Let's bump this place! Fist bump.

From The Trolley Song (Meet me in St. Louis) "bump, bump, bump went the brake, thump, thump, thump went my heartstrings."

Bump start. Bumper crop. Bumper sticker.

"I can't bump any more but I can manage a sedate wiggle providing it doesn't go on too long." Anon.

On you go. You get bumped down, get up again. Don't be a bump on the log. Do go bump in the night (from what I remember, it's fun.) Don't make mountains outta mole hills as one day they will turn into a plateau. (I thought it was funny anyways.)

Happy bump day,
Love, Victurd