Monday Mail: Show some ID, Charlie Brown

Cold cold cold like an ice cream cone, it’s Monday Mail.

Today's opening is from the Rolling Stones' "She's So Cold."

Hot stuff

Here are two responses to last week's column on catching a cold. It mentioned showing ID to buy certain chemicals that can be used to make meth.

Here's an online comment from the "Round Man Of Sound":

Try going to the big box stores to purchase a can of compressed air; or a bottle of fuel injector cleaner. You have to submit to the indignity of showing your ID, having the clerk OK the transaction (if you're using self-checkout). I really worried that they were going to insist on a prostate check, to boot!

Hey Man:

Will those things fit in a body cavity? I bet our lawmakers haven't even thought of that.

Get up, Stan up

Here's a message about my finding some pseudoephedrine in my bathroom drawers:

Dear Tim,

I'm sorry you're sick. I hope it's only one of those 24-hour bugs. I don't think there is such a thing as a 24-hour bug, but my mother always talked about it being a 24-hour bug while she was shoving me out of the door to catch the school bus the day after I whined my way into staying home sick.

ANYWAY. That's not why I'm writing. I was really wondering why you kept your cold medicine in your underwear, or maybe you were standing in your drawers when you found your cold medicine? When you get to feeling better I hope you can clear that up for us....

Stan.

Dear Stan:

Maybe the drug was in my drawers because I was sneaking it out of the drugstore. You don't know.

Pigpen

Here's an online comment from Hal Kirven, who uses "good grief" as quick as a "Peanuts" character. This regards Georgia's law on prosecuting juveniles as adults:

L-E headline: "HOW DO JUVENILE SUSPECTS WIND UP CHARGED AS ADULTS? In light of three teens now facing charges for the Upatoi homicides, attorneys explain how the 'S.B. 440' law affects the 'seven deadly sins.'" Good grief, due to the nature of the brutality and animalistic circumstances of these crimes, why is the L-E bothering to question why "S.B. 440" was injected into the arrests! Maybe the L-E reporter should have the 15 year old remanded into his custody and placed in his house until trial time.

Dear Hal:

Get a job, Charlie Brown, and you'll know why some of us complete assignments by deadlines.

Tim Chitwood, 706-571-8508.tchitwood@ledger-enquirer.com.

This story was originally published February 21, 2016 at 8:43 PM with the headline "Monday Mail: Show some ID, Charlie Brown ."