# 30 What does Garfield and the Boomtown Rats have in common?

Come on it’s easy.   Mondays ta da.  So everyone is probably wondering, I know I would be, how does an easy going fun loving carpe diem young man such as myself turn into a G.O.M.   Well let me tell you.  One night you wake up 2-3 times more than normally happens, not to get a drink or to roll over but to void your bladder.  This in turn causes sleep loss which in turn makes you count the seconds till your alarm goes off because you cant get back to sleep.  Step 1 to grumpiness.  Step 2 putting on a harmless pair of socks to find yourself lying on the floor in excruciating pain because of a non scheduled leg cramp.   Step 3 deciding to weigh yourself in hope that the piece of pie with that extra ala mode left with one of those bladder voids you had before you went to bed.  Step 4 accepting the challenge to negotiate back roads for sudden dear sighting along with avoiding any high speed driving on a non sanctioned NASCAR track know as Rt 22/30 just to get to a place called work.  ( if you spell work backwards it spells  krow which is French for why the hell am I doing this).   Step 5 spend 4 hours wondering what's for lunch and 5 hours wondering what's for dinner.  The stuff in between is usually a blur between sugar highs and lows and cat naps.  Step 6 reverse step 4.   Step 7 a few hours of peace and quiet before you rinse and repeat again and again and again.  Bill Murray put it best.  Wow I could have had a V8.   I originally had 12 steps but it would get confused with you know AAA how to change a tire.  

So that's how I became a Grumpy Old Man

Go get your QTL its not going to be looking for you 

G.O.M.