I am getting better by the day.
At least I think I am.
But insomnia is still with me, and again, I woke up today about 45 minutes ago, and simply cannot go back to sleep.
I checked the Yankees score--I watched as much of the game as I could before dozing off--and here I am, as happy as a lark with their 8-1 win over the Astros, and I am still not sleeping.
What day am I finally going to crash? That day, evidently, has not come yet.
Anyway, do you love Taco Bell? Do you love Mexican food in general?
Would you love it enough to steal it, or at least love it enough to steal it so you could make a profit from it?
A former South Texas juvenile justice department employee did just that over a nine-year period.
According to news reports, the perpetrator admitted to stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over a nine-year period, leading to his firing from his position in August and arrest after authorities obtained a search warrant and found numerous pounds of fajitas in his refrigerator.
How did he do this? According to these reports, Gilberto Escaramilla intercepted Cameron County-funded food deliveries, paying for the purloined fajitas with county funds, and then took the fajitas and delivered them to his own customers.
How did the authorities find out that something was south of the border here? Escaramilla missed work one day, and a delivery driver showed up with 800 pounds of fajitas, but there was one problem: the juvenile department does not serve fajitas--and the driver said he had been delivering fajitas to this department for the past nine years.
Putting two and two together, the authorities determined that Escaramilla had a lot of 'splainin' to do. And yes, authorities went over nine years of purchase orders to determine the value of the fajitas he had lifted.
His customers supposedly had no idea that they were being scammed with the stolen fajitas, and they are cooperating with authorities to sort out this mess.
Now, he will probably get to spend a couple of years in the pokey for his deeds, where they presumably don't offer Mexican meals for dinner and don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
Poor Gilberto. So many fajitas and so few choices now that he has been found out.
I remember that as my grandparents on my father's side got older, they became more eccentric in their ways.
One day, we went over to their house for something, and as per normal, my father opened his parents' refrigerator to make sure they had enough food in the house to eat.
He opened the door, and there were about 100 tomatoes lined up on each shelf in the refrigerator.
And there was little else, if even anything, in that refrigerator.
My father asked my grandfather, "Why do you have so many tomatoes?"
My grandfather calmly replied, "Because they were on sale."
And that ended that (by that time, my grandparents were eating just about all of their meals in the senior citizen center, so they didn't need that much in their refrigerator to live on).
I don't really know why I am combining the two stories, which have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but I bet that one can find out plenty about people by simply looking in their refrigerators.
What is inside of the refrigerator can pretty much give you a bird's-eye view of a person or a family.
What do they eat? How much of it do they eat? Are they meat eaters, or vegetarians?
However, I doubt that anyone would look into someone's refrigerator by themselves without permission, but as you know, people do look in others' medicine cabinets, but I guess they get away with that because generally when you are in the bathroom, the door is closed, so no one can see what you are really doing in there.
In the middle of the kitchen, everyone would see you going through someone's refrigerator.
Some people even put locks on their refrigerators to dissuade them from eating at all times of the day, and some new-fangled refrigerators are connected to the Internet, and can tell you what you need to buy if you are at the supermarket.
Thus, what's worse than looking into someone's refrigerator is hacking someone's refrigerator, because if someone can hack into your refrigerator, they can probably get other information that has nothing to do with that appliance, including Social Security numbers and things like that.
I have no idea how to end this Rant about refrigerators, other than to say that if you remember "The Honeymooners" TV show, Ralph and Alice Kramden did not have a refrigerator, they had an ice box.
Maybe that is the safest way to go nowadays.
The only fuss is to clean out the water.
I don't think they had fajitas in their ice box, but they probably did have tomatoes.
With Ralph's chintziness, I will bet Alice bought those tomatoes on sale.
I mean, between a new bowling ball or tomatoes, what's more important?
Ask poor Gilberto, and he will say, "Fajitas ... of course."
"bowling ball on tomatoes" is that a new sandwich? Feel better and get some rest soon.
ReplyDeleteIt is sort of "American" Mexican food. Having had "real" Mexican food in San Diego years ago, you know that Taco Bell "Americanized" Mexican food, and that is really their major accomplishment, and certainly the key to their success. As for the typo, that is what it was. I was certainly getting tired by that point, and yes, I did go back to sleep, but this annoying habit of waking up as if I had had a good night's sleep hopefully stops tonight. There will come a point where I am going to crash; I just don't know when that point will be.
ReplyDeleteTrue, and add Del Taco to that list, but they are nowhere to be found in our part of the world. What Taco Bell did was make their dishes more meat oriented than most Mexican dishes are--traditional Mexican dishes use mainly vegetables--and it clicked with the American public, who didn't know any better back then and probably still don't. I enjoy Taco Bell every once in a while, although most of their offerings taste very much alike.
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