Greeting Cards

Not in a trillion years did I imagine I’d speak of or discuss soccer. It’s not one of my favorite sports. However, with reverence and a lack of knowledge, I’ll try to find something other than the USA World Cup red card to discuss about this hands-free sport.

I had the goofy thought that rather than delivering yellow or red cards as a form of punishment, players should be presented with greeting cards. With all the theatrics, it seems appropriate.

Dear sir, we regret to inform you that you’ve done something not in malice but the person who is wailing in pain wishes fo deliver this: Get unwell soon. Yours truly, referee Charles.

Sorry about the infraction. Your mother makes a delightful lamb . With love and forgiveness. Referee Dick.

Dear sir: This card greets you with fruitless sadness. Happy Holidays.

Dear Sir. Sadly, I had to deliver this card on Mother’s Day. Sorry she was run over by a tractor. Yours truly: Referee Tom.

Coming from a world in which I had multiple concussions, not just in football or even baseball, but basement fights….well that’s just the way it was. No crying, no cards. The talent of these soccer players is remarkable, but they should leave the flopping for the fish.

That’s a Good Question

When you ask someone a question and they respond with ” That’s a good question”. It means, I don’t know. I respond by saying, I don’t have the faintest idea, or I don’t have a clue. It’s just that easy.

I asked someone how many little people could fit in a stretch limousine. They responded with, “That’s a good question.” First of all, it’s not a good question. Don’t respond at all.

Jiffy Lube

Just like Jiffy Lube, critics can blow it up their mufflers.

The other day, I was criticized regarding my writing. Honestly, it hurt. I am not afraid to admit I am sensitive. It goes with the territory just like sharks are in the ocean.

How do I deal with it? Prayer.

Understanding

Trying to understand the horrors lingering in the once peaceful city of Wenatchee, Washington, I first acknowledge the three angels the earth left behind. Then, I want to understand why someone would deliver their sentence. The truth is, I don’t know. I don’t even understand myself, let alone others.

Prayers

Rain

It’s raining in Seattle and no one knows how to drive. When it snows in Seattle, no one goes to work. When it is dry and sunny, everyone wishes to drive recklessly endangering those who drive the speed limit. I feel like I’m writing a letter to the local news from a bored house wife.

I need some new material. Maybe I’ll call one of my sisters

Conclave

It is the academy awards for Catholics today. Who will be the next Pope and will he have the proper Id to travel? What will they wear. Who wore it best?

I would love our current President to be declined to go to Canada because his ID wasn’t real.

Repent, you non advised sinners.

Black Berries

The blackberries taste like blackberries. For the second time in my life, I was caught stealing. The first time, my dad busted me for concealing an armed Milky Way in my pocket. That was age 5. I payed for it in the chicken coop where ample wood was available for a proper whacking.

Now, I’m guilty of committing another crime at age 50. I stole two black berries at the local market in Milan, Italy. Thinking they were samples, I ate one and tossed another to my wife, which makes her an accomplice. Sirens went blazing and I threw my hands in the air after the man, ten yards away, was accusing me of theft. Avoiding Italian incarceration, I apologized and payed 3 bucks for the case of berries.

Razor Sharp

I have the most boring bucket list known to man or woman kind. One of which is being clean shaven in London with a razor which may or may not provide hepatitis. You leave a tip if they give you hepatitis.

The Five Minute Blizzard

Drama is the weather. Seattle effectively shutdown last week over a half inch of snow, and what amounted to be a five minute “blizzard”. It led me to both roll my eyes, and reflect on the less terrifying memories of my snowy childhood.

I grew up in a city called Spokane. We would regularly get two to three feet of snow in the summer. That does’t count the plows pushing an additional six feet of snow in our drive way. Pounding our way through Eastern Europe, we said, “Screw this noise, Let’s build a snow castle!” Done. I was the brain. My brothers were the engineers. It was magnificent.