This morning I saw something about a shooting in Orlando, but because I just saw a news blurb and no substantive information aside from that, I moved on.
A little while later I received a text from her assuring me that she was okay. Huh? What? What are you talking about?
She then informs me that the shooting from the news blurb happened in the Emergency Room at the hospital she works at. Now, she works on the opposite side of the complex, so she was not directly involved. And the actual shooting happened 'after' she was off duty.
Thank you, sweet Jesus.
And then, without even taking a breath, she hits me with "Oh, by the way, in November some of my friends and I are going to CUBA for the weekend."
Huh? What did you say? WHERE are you going?
CUBA!
Uh, you do know that CUBA is a Communist country? Right? That they are an enemy of the United States?
Oh Dad, don't worry, we'll be safe. We've been assured that where we're going in HAVANA is cool........
Uh, HAVANA is NOT SAFE and it is NOT COOL! GITMO, where you'd be surrounded by M-4 toting United States Marines, would be cool! HAVANA? Not just no, but hell no!
And then we mysteriously were disconnected.
I don't know anybody in Cuba. I have zero contacts there. Not. A. Soul. And, what if one of her 'friends' gets drunk on mojitos and starts some crap and they all end up getting thrown into a damn Cuban jail? Then what? Is it all frigging cool then?
Not to mention that their American dollars will somehow find its way into the hands of Communists and other third world terrorists in other Caribbean, Central & South American countries to be used against us here.
Which she doesn't even realize, because, hey, you know, they don't teach this in American history anymore. So none of them know about the recent Communist history of CUBA.
I swear to God, guys, my daughter is trying to kill me!
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