Things I fear

Some things I have never understood. For instance, the fascination some people have with pink flamingos. They are everywhere. You walk around pseudo-farming communities like St. Helens and you see them in every pseudo-garden. You go to feed and seed stores, they are everywhere. On the shelves, the front walk, the shelves, in costumes flagging down traffic...and of course, every Grandma Frisbee puttering around in her garden slaps down two or three of those babies. After all, it cannot officially be a "cute flower patch" without a Pink Flamingo. That is why Linus has been frustrated all these years....do you really think the Great Pumpkin would ever condescend to select a garden that *gasp* had no Pink Flamingos in it? Ha!
I would even say I have seen them in Las Vegas. Dad and I kind of got detoured on our way to the Grand Canyon and spent a few days in Vegas.
Now, any self-respecting Las Vegasite knows the only real decorations you need are swimming pools and slot machines. Yet an obscene number (and to be honest, just ONE would be an obscene number) of them feel compelled to plant these stupid Pink Flamingo cut-outs in their "yards". I have no idea if they are associating with Bugsy and Reno or or just why, but the Pink Flamingo is to Las Vegas what class is to a trailer park. They are sometimes there and nobody really knows why.
Of course, it could be worse. They could be Garden Gnomes...