chuckv97 - Posted - 05/24/2022:  08:22:22

then that we started our journey towards diabetic comas.

Desserts were piled high

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/24/2022:  10:33:23

, chocolate and sweets readily available, and sugared drinks abundant.

It was early one Wednesday morning

OM45GE - Posted - 05/24/2022:  17:18:51

when I decided enough was too much.

I sat down and

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/24/2022:  18:28:16

cracked the outhouse oak toilet seat.

So I ordered some stainless steel

saw_woods - Posted - 05/24/2022:  18:56:58

It’s cold on the buttocks on an early winter’s morning, but durable as heck.

Next I went searching on Amazon

OM45GE - Posted - 05/25/2022:  02:46:22

for a fur toilet seat cover but I got sidetracked but all the recommended-for-you suggestions.

I ended up

saw_woods - Posted - 05/25/2022:  05:54:00

just buying a pair of fur pants with an “access panel.”

Now I’m ready

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/25/2022:  06:37:18

for just about any occasion that calls for fur pants, or pants an access panel.

Remember when

saw_woods - Posted - 05/25/2022:  09:57:14

McDonald’s used to advertise “change back from your dollar” for a meal, or Walmart advertised “everything made in America?”

I wonder

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/25/2022:  09:59:41

what they’re lying about now.

I’m tired of phony commercials

saw_woods - Posted - 05/25/2022:  10:09:35

Where multi millionaires tell me about how they save sooo much money by switching to Medicare part C.

Does anyone really think

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/25/2022:  11:01:31

I’m that gullible.

Clearly, Original Medicare Part B is by far

OM45GE - Posted - 05/25/2022:  11:35:56

superior to anything with a subsequent letter.

I mean, isn’t an

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/25/2022:  11:45:41

American envying Canadian public health care labeled a Communist.

I read Das Kapital

saw_woods - Posted - 05/25/2022:  12:52:55

But it was in German, so I didn’t understand it.

Next I am going to read

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/25/2022:  15:40:32

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

Maybe it will be more

OM45GE - Posted - 05/25/2022:  17:17:07

to my liking and have more pictures than words.

My lips get tired when

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/25/2022:  17:41:18

I have to mouth too many words.

I took up the trumpet once

OM45GE - Posted - 05/26/2022:  03:40:24

but no matter how hard I blew everyone said I sucked.

I guess they were right because even

saw_woods - Posted - 05/26/2022:  04:55:54

my teacher recommended I quit the trumpet and take up air guitar.

With all that advice

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/26/2022:  07:20:24

I rebelled and became a surly drifter.

I drifted

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/26/2022:  09:20:50

like a rudderless row boat with one oar.

All I had to my name

saw_woods - Posted - 05/26/2022:  10:44:17

was a shirt, a pair of cut-off jeans and a pair of flip-flops.

I wandered down to Key West and

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/26/2022:  10:52:37

stepped on a pop top.



Rotgut whisky eased the pain

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Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/26/2022:  11:19:28

of my brand new tattoo.

But it’s a real

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/26/2022:  14:01:34

my travails at Tiny’s Gym for many years.

Tiny charges

OM45GE - Posted - 05/27/2022:  03:01:25

me double what he charges everyone else and said it’s combat pay.

Apparently I am

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/27/2022:  03:58:19

up for a promotion and subsequent pay raise at my place if employment.

It’s been

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/27/2022:  10:17:35

ten long years since I left my home.

I left the plough in the field

saw_woods - Posted - 05/27/2022:  10:25:20

right next to that decrepit old outhouse.

Now I am a man of constant sorrow, who

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/27/2022:  14:18:28

has seen trouble all his days.

That is until

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/27/2022:  14:23:50

“she” came to town.

Her charms

OM45GE - Posted - 05/28/2022:  03:25:37

left me completely besotted.

She knew exactly

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/28/2022:  05:06:58

where my tangled, dusty heartstrings lay.

She also knew

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/28/2022:  10:45:54

my bank account info.

My Pa often tole me

saw_woods - Posted - 05/28/2022:  10:48:53

Hide your assets, ‘cause love don’t last, but taxes are forever.

I wish I had listened, but next time

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/28/2022:  14:24:36

I think I’ll file my taxes on time.

It’s been a few years

saw_woods - Posted - 05/28/2022:  14:41:01

Since I last spent a night in jail.

Lately, I’ve been worried about

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/28/2022:  15:46:24

auditioning at Grim Jim’s Bar & Grille to get the Happy Hour spot on Friday afternoons.

I only know sad songs

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/28/2022:  18:48:00

that I’ve written about my dysfunctional family.

My Ma

saw_woods - Posted - 05/28/2022:  19:26:47

was married 12 times.

To my Pa 6 and to

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/29/2022:  08:23:50

to her brother twice, and her uncle twice.

The other two

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/29/2022:  10:22:01

we’re short-lived affairs not worthy of discussion at family dinners.

I’m not sure

saw_woods - Posted - 05/29/2022:  10:53:57

what we discussed at family dinners, as the wine always flowed freely, and my recollections are hazy, at best.

But I do remember

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/29/2022:  12:02:44

offer up an educated guess based solely on visual examination, nor an opinion based on taste for that matter.

What we did know

saw_woods - Posted - 05/29/2022:  12:22:55

was that it was definitely not Sasquatch.

I only tried that once in

chuckv97 - Posted - 05/29/2022:  23:02:33

1983 when I toured through Washington state.

It was on the menu

Pick-A-Lick - Posted - 05/30/2022:  13:51:43

promoted as the Tuesday Lunch Special at Big Foot Diner and Taxidermy Emporium.

Luckily it was Tuesday just before noon

saw_woods - Posted - 05/30/2022:  15:02:54

they brought my plate out, and there it was… a great, big foot lying there, toes toward the sky, swimming in a pond of gravy.

Of course I started with the