La Jefa doesn’t agree that the only chance she gets to
expand her mind is by hanging with me. But dig it man.
Oops. Sorry. Flashback. Getting those a lot lately.
Anyway, the other afternoon we were talking out under the
tree and spending an hour in happiness. Our conversation turned to the weather,
as it often does in Arkansas, where daily swings of 30 degrees or more are not
uncommon. I made the mistake of commenting something or other about certain
conditions proving so cold that it “would cut your water off.”
“Are you talking about frozen water pipes?” she asked.
“Uh, no.”
“What then?”
“Don’t you remember that old Jimmy Rogers song where he
slipped in the line about the “wind so cold, man it cuts your water off?”
“Jimmy who?”
“Never mind.”
“So whose water gets cut off?”
“I explained that it was a man thing.”
“Oh. That’s pretty silly.” She mused for a moment. “What if
you have to go really bad?”
“You just find a warmer place.”
An addendum: When the Lady Hazel heard us discussing this, she added, "It makes you go real fast."
That is just too good... there are all kinds of sayings I learned living in south Arkansas that make people here look at you like you are speaking a foreign language.
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