OPINION? EVERYBODY HAS ONE

Maybe you can knock on wood when you don’t lose the bet you placed on the football game or when you realize you didn’t have a heart attack, but tell me what good that would do! What does a piece of wood know about betting or your health? I sure am in a quandary when I think about some of the silly stuff we human beings do and say.

I said all that to say this, hoping that I have distanced myself from the anger of an irate she-male when I say the next thing I intend to say. Sorry if that is hard to make sense of. Did you reread it and are you ready to continue?

I am of average intelligence, can run a cattleoperation pretty well, work on the vehicles, figure how much fertilizer to spread per acre and fill my own plate at the table. What I have never been able to do is figure out why some things turn the world upside down.

Does it make any difference if the cake your close relative bakes is not what she calls risen? Does that make it taste bad? Why do we want a cake? Do we just want to see it high in the middle or do we want to eat it? I use that as an example but there are multitudes of things that can blow a female out of the saddle!

Just because I wanted to park a hay rake, that looks like it is junk because it is, pretty close to the shopand, if you looked close, you could see it from the dining room window, a hand wringing was brought on! Stern looks, brows drawn, jaw muscles flexing and a right stout walk was the result.

My close relative didn’t even let the dust settle before she was out there with the almighty question, “Not leaving that thing there, are you?”

Well, yes, I was gonna leave it there and use the parts when needed to repair the good rake. A feller never can tell when he is gonna need a part and the old rake was cheap. I was proud of myself for making a good deal and I didn’t even think it looked bad. Of course, I hadn’t looked at it from the dining room window.

There are a good many things our government could learn from a firstclass domestic union. It would be interesting if the foreign diplomats would try to handle squabbles thesame way us fellers have to take care of the domestic squabbles. We know we ain’t gonna come to blows, we ain’t gonna give up our turf, we ain’t gonna change our relationships except to make them better so we have to come to a humane and decent agreement.

It is my opinion, and everyone has one, compromising is out of the question if it means giving up positions that are important. How that works is figuring out what is really important and what won’t make a hill of beans worth of difference in the outcome of the world. I did move the “new” rake behind the shop building, close to the south door instead of the north door.

The important thing I did not cede was peaceful meals at the table and being vacant from the dog house with winter coming on!

Bill is a pen name used by the Gravette author of this weekly column.

News, Pages 7 on 10/05/2011