In the Old Days, where I come from, things were different. I think things were better. You may not agree but I don’t care whether you agree or not. I only thing I care about is that you read my Blog Postings and I know you do because, if you didn’t read my Blog Postings, you would not have just read that the only thing I care about is that you read my Blog Postings.
Now that I have made you laugh or confused the devil out of
you I will move on with my Silly (Or is it?) Commentary for today.
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In the old days the Father of the House would come home from
work and he was met at the door by his distressed family who said to him
something along these lines, “Oh,
Father, we are so glad you are home! We have been in a quandary waiting for you
to arrive. Your family needs you! The Clothes Dryer is not working, a Tree Was Blown
Down in the back yard and needs to be cut up for firewood and Horizontal
Holding Tube inside the TV has blown up! Do you think you can make all this
better before we eat our Family Supper, like we do every night?”
In the old days the Father of the House would immediately come
to life. His face would light up, he would drop his brief case on the floor and
run for his hat. (He always felt comfortable with his hat on his head. He knew
his hat’s message told the world who he really was because it said, “I Am THE Handy … Man!”)
The Rest of the Story is that by the time Family Supper Time
rolled around...
Ø The
Clothes Dryer was good as new.
Ø The
Downed Tree was cut and stored in the wood shed.
Ø The
Blown TV Tube was replaced (Father always kept one of each TV Tube next to his
workbench for Replacement Emergencies such as this).
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That was then but this is now…
The Father of the House comes home from work and he is met
at the door by his distressed family who said to him something along these
lines, “Oh, Father, we are so glad you
are home! We have been in a quandary waiting for you to arrive. Your family
needs you! There is a Light Bulb burnt out in that room where we used to eat our
Family Supper on in the old days. Of course, that’s where we now have our
Computers, our Xbox's and the Bird Cage set up. Can you change the Bulb before
we don’t eat Family Supper together tonight?”
Father says, “Oh not
again! It’s always something! I need a beer! Call AngieTaklAdvisor and have
them take care of that bulb! This is second time this year a Bulb has burnt out
and it’s only November! Besides they advertise on the Radio that it’s, “Free to
You”. That, of course, must mean they do not charge us anything…Or do they not?
Besides, I gave my Handy Hat to the Salvation Army long ago.”
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I don’t know about you but I preferred The Old Days.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: I wonder
how many times AngieTaklAdvisor receives
a distress call to Stain a Back Deck, Add a Nursery onto the back of the house
or Install a New Motor in a Dish Washer where the caller gets angry and accuses
AngieTaklAdvisor of False
Advertising because the radio ad says, “Always
Free to You”.
These are the same people who get an Income Tax Refund and then
go to work the next day and tells the guy next to where the Water Bubbler used
to be, “I didn’t pay any Income Tax last
year and instead the Government actually send me money”.
The guy next to where the Water Bubbler used to be says in
return, “Yea, me too”.
