Well, at least he didn’t leave her with a hacksaw, handcuffed to a burning car.
My apologies for not posting a link to the news source for this story .
The reason I was distracted and obviously didn’t put the attention required to proof read before submitting a post. is simple , Her name is Verna , she is 7 years old and I’m lucky enough to her grandma . Her and her mom walked in just about the time I was finishing typing the post .
I’m easily distracted by her blues eyes and pretty smile . :o
I’ve come up with 3 choices an adult with half the brains nature gave a piss ant would have chosen from ,
1,carry her , after all he’s in his early 50 's .
2,sit her down in my shade for a bit
when she said she was tired
3,wait for someone to miss us and come looking
Leaving her there alone with a loaded and cocked (with a round in the chamber) fire arm ,is just so far south of left field it’s inconceivable to me.
IMO, grandpa should be taken twice as far out in that desert ,past where he left that baby girl under a tree .He would l abandoned there with the same fire arm he left with the girl , It would have just one chambered round .
And grandpa would be instructed to shoot ’ the bad guy ’ .
Well apparently he was mad.
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It just depends on how much you enunciate the “t.” Merriam Webster gives the phonetic spelling as ˈrā-tər but the audio sounds like “ray-der,” exactly like the newscast.
Center field?
When something or some one comes “out of left field” . it’ / they starts out crazy and stays crazy ,. When it/they start from south of left field , that crazy invented crazy .
Like this grandpa who leaves a child of five out in the desert with a loaded fire arm while he goes for a burger and beer , if ‘south of left field’ were in a dictionary , it would be a picture of him .
But if a left-handed pitcher is a “southpaw,” it suggests that left field is over his right shoulder, to the north. So “south of left field” should be center field.
If you want your idiom to imply that it’s so far from left field that it isn’t even in fair territory, it should be north of left field.
Actually, in most MLB ballparks, “south of left field” would be the infield.
That might’ve been on Grampa’s mind when he toddled off to the tavern. I suspect he was just looking for a relief pitcher.
But if a left-handed boxer is a “southpaw” it doesn’t suggest this at all. Maybe they were using it as a boxing metaphor?
I cheerfully admit I’ve never heard the version of the idiom that goes “south of left field”, though I’ve heard “south” and “left field” independently as parts of metaphors for irrationality or unexpectedness.
I would not normally comment on a mixed metaphor, but I felt I had to take the bull by the horns of a dilemma.
For katpohl:
Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus
he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death
-- e e cummingsWhat, just now? 
I’ve had that damn song going through my head every time I’ve seen or heard mention of Obamaphones, which presumably started back in 2009.
The only thing that can stop a bad toddler with a gun is a good toddler with a gun!
Consuming four beer, it sounds like he just about got his full pitcher of relief.
It sounds like the toddler let the regiment down, and he was expecting her to do the honorable thing. But she was apparently a cad and a bounder.
Regards,
Shodan, Old Sock, Old Bean, By Gad, The Deuce You Say
If he’d left her a grenade, she could have blown up some bad guys along with herself.
Any word on if Grandma has kicked his sorry ass to the curb yet?