Month: October 2013

As I was setting on the porch this morning, I started looking for my glasses.  After several minutes I found them, on my head.  It is always embarrassing when I’m looking for something that he ends up either in front of Me or next in a place that I’ve already looked.

For the last week I have been expecting a letter from my son.  After not finding a letter I called my wife who was out in California visiting her family.  She asked me to ook through all the mail that I have already collected while she’s been gone.  I had put the mail on the kitchen counter so that when she returned she could go through all of the ads.  I searched through the stack of mail looking for the latter from my son.  I did this on three separate occasions.  Finally, I called my son and asked him to resend a letter.  The latter had a check in sho I was concerned that I had received it yet.  He said no problem and iI was resend that day.

Today it is raining so I went through the stack of mail again and started placing the different letters into separate stacks.  While stacking up the magazine’s we had received,the original letter was discovered.  This is always embarrassing.  My wife says I was   ” man looking” again.  As in much as I think that when I’m searching for an item: whether it is my glasses, something to write on, my medication or the mail, I do a good job.  But, as life has taught me, I think my wife is right.  I do not seemed as disciplined in my searching as she does.  Today I sent an e-mail to my son telling him that I found the letter.  If this keeps up pretty soon my wife are my kids will ask me to give the keys to the car because I cannot find the road.  Usually I would hear from people on this subject as- that is what happens when you get old.  Well I feel a been old for many years and I remember that I’ve always been ” man looking”.  By that I mean, I’ve always needed help finding things that others find quickly in front of me or where I just looked, the difference now is that I gets  very angry at myself.

I will not give out searching and looking for those items I need.  But I will ease up on myself and understand that I am “man looking” and I will eventually with or without others help I will find the item.

As I was sitting on the porch I had this thought and wonder if anyone else has experienced it. Have you ever noticed that saying good-by on the phone when speaking to a wife or girlfriend is not easy if you do not say I love you when ending the conversation. Not just saying I Love you but if she says it ten times you must rely I love you ten times. Isn’t once enough? Try just saying it once if she says is again before hanging up. There will be a long silence and then she will say don’t you love me or she will use you’re proper name. Like Jonathan when you have be John during most the conversation. As a man I feel that one I Love you when hanging up should be enough. But I usually say it several times when ending the phone call with my wife.

It is usually in response to her I love you. Do not get me wrong I love her dearly, but how many times when hanging up is the proper number of time. I do not want her to think the wrong thing. It is the same with I miss you. Shouldn’t once be enough I mean what I say when I say it. But I love her so much I will say it as many times as needed.

As I was sitting on the porch this morning I saw a large truck pulling a horse trailer very slowly down the road and it reminded of my dislike for slow drivers. You know the ones that are fine driving 45 mph on a road posted at 70 mph. If they are driving on the freeway they would be honked at,  flipped off and cursed out. Cars and trucks would jokey around to get passed the slow driver usually causing accidents by trying to change lanes. I use to think that these car were driven by senior citizens only. You know an old Lincoln Continental or Mercury  with a handy cap sticker ( I think when anyone buys one of these cars it should come with a handicap sticker) dangling from the rear view mirror. I would see two hands and blue hair barely silhouetting from the car or a set of big ears. It does no good to honk or curse at them they cannot hear anyway and they will not see the bird as you display it they are concentrating on staying in the lane. But recently as I have moved into a rural area I have found all ages and silhouette’s drive 10 or 20 mph slower that the posted  limit. Some will see you coming and when it is available they will move safely over and drive in the shoulder lane or just pull over and stop so you and the ten cars behind you can pass safely. However many will continue to drive slowly and cause you and other to pass on the left oncoming traffic lane which opens you , the cars behind you and the slow driver, to an accident. Passing is always dangerous and accidents happen but the accidents usually will involve several cars. The car being passed, the passing car, the car you didn’t see driving in the oncoming lane and any vehicle still behind that find itself running into an occurring accident. So please pull over let the other pass safely. The slower car is not in a hurry so why not pull over when it is safe and let those 5 crazy driver’s behind you to get around you and on their way.  I know that the slow driver feels that it is their right to drive as slow as they want and it is the fast drivers that cause accident, but if you are driving so slow it makes people pass you many times in short passing areas. You are as much to blame as the passing motorist.

SO PULL OVER DRIVE FREINDLY

   POPS