What's a Hiney Shot?

Friday night we were riding down the Boulevard. Our friends John and Gerri were in the backseat. Mike, who was driving, said, "What's a hiney shot?"

This had nothing to do with the subject we were discussing, but to humor him I said, " I guess it's a shot given in your derriere."

"Well," he said, "why would Walgreen be advertising that they are giving shots in the rear end?"

At this point, we all turned around and looked at the Walgreen kiosk. It said "HINI shots available here." We all started laughing when we realized that it meant H1N1 shots not hiney shots.

Super Baa Saves The Webkins

Last year Amaris, my then eight-year-old granddaughter, hinted that she would like a penguin Webkin for her birthday. Happily I found one for her and she added it to her collection of Webkins: two dogs and a panda bear. I loved the little penguin. It was so soft and cuddly. The perfect gift for an eight year old. Amaris immediately registered it at the Webkin Website and began providing it with a wonderful internet environment---a bed, tables, chairs etc. Imagine my dismay when she informed at Christmas this year that she had been notified that her eleven month old penguin, her two dogs, and her panda bear were going to EXPIRE soon unless she bought another Webkin. Isn't "expire" a euphemism for die? How terrible that her treasured little friends were going to meet such a horrible fate. Wanting to save her the distress of losing her website pets, I found a Webkin lamb and gave it to her for her ninth birthday. For a time her Webkins have been saved from EXPIRING by the little lamb that she named Super Ba---Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Super Ba who has come to save the Webkin clan. Super Ba, however, is only a Bandaid. Soon she will receive another expiration notice. Do I smell a racket? Did I become a part of the racket? I do believe I did. But hey---that is the perogative of grandmothers.