LSJ Blogs: John Schneider

Is a man a necessary accessory?

The subject of a recent e-mail from Dona Rumrill of DeWitt: “Take a man with you to buy a vehicle.”

Share your time-share story

George Nichlas of Lansing throws out this challenge:
Can you find me ONE person who has had any luck with a time-share resale company.
GOOD luck, that is.

Playing chicken in Detroit

So, I pull up to my mother’s house on a Saturday afternoon, and notice her next-door neighbors on their front lawn, tending to their chickens.
Did I mention that my mother lives well within the Detroit city limits?

A Toyota in GM clothing

Since Tuesday, when I wrote about a sticky ignition switch in a local woman’s PONTIAC Vibe, I’ve heard from about a million GM workers who tell me the Vibe is actually a Toyota.
Huh?

I wasn’t REALLY trying to dump it

It looks like I’ll be driving my 2000 Explorer for a while yet (I hope), which makes me glad I didn’t refer to it by that derogatory buzz word.

It’s fun to stay at the …

I’ve heard Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero called many things, but never “a true gentleman.”
Until now.

On Sunday I got an e-mail from Rick and Sue Gyebnar of Delta Township in which they described a weekend encounter with Hizzoner.
The Gyebnars were participating in their church’s scavenger hunt. You know — the kind of ordeal in which participants have to come up with weird things, one of which was  …
No, not a lock of the mayor’s hair.
No, not a photo of Virg hugging Carol Wood.

What the hunters needed was a photo of themselves — along with somebody they didn’t  know — forming the “YMCA” letters with their arms.
Well, the scavengers were in a local Chinese restaurant picking up some of the other things on their list when one of them noticed Bernero at a nearby table. They asked the mayor if he would be their fourth letter.
“Surprisingly, he agreed,” the Gyebnars wrote. “He was very friendly and seemed to enjoy the experience. You can only imagine the reaction we got when our photo was shown on the big screen back at the church. All positive, of course." It was, after all, a church.

The Gyebnars added: “Virg is a true gentleman.”

Sophomoric logic

I’m no advocate of concealed weapons, but I am an advocate of logic.
Rightly, or wrongly, a person with the proper permit can pack heat almost everywhere else in Michigan.
Why not on college campuses?

Want some hair with that burger?

I was cruising down North Grand River Avenue Wednesday when I saw a sign advertising “Maum’s Hair Diner.”
As I pulled into the parking lot to investigate further, I was really hoping it was more salon than restaurant.

Baby, we were born to hobble

Seeing rocker Bruce Springsteen on the cover of the current issue of AARP’s magazine almost made me lose my dentures. How did that magazine end up in our house, anyway?

If it bombs, it bombs on its own

The play I wrote, which will  get the honor of a staged reading this weekend at the Renegade Theatre Festival has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BATH SCHOOL BOMBING.