We interrupt this program...to bring you a laugh

"A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

Charlie Chaplin

I've Got Your Back 

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I’ve been heavily into serious matters these past few days and I definitely intend to return to them and finish this discussion of heroic virtues and why and where they merit our consideration as artists. However…every now and then it’s good to give the mind a rest and laugh a little just for the sport of it. This little story is making the email rounds so I have no clue where the credit for the original or the images belongs…if you created this, by all means let me know! [Some of you might find this a tad risque - no bad language however - though these days this is very mild!]

Yesterday my daughter e-mailed me again asking why I didn't do something useful with my time.

 “Like sitting around the pool and drinking wine is not a good thing”, I said.

Talking about my "doing something useful" seems to be her favorite topic of conversation.
She was "only thinking of me" she said, and suggested I go down to the senior center and hang out with the guys.

I did this and when I got home last night I decided to teach her a lesson about staying out of my business.

I e-mailed her and told her that I had joined a parachute club.

She replied, "Are you nuts? You are 73 years old, and now you're going to start jumping out of airplanes?"

I told her that I even got a membership card and e-mailed a copy to her.

 

She immediately telephoned me, "Good grief, where are your glasses! This is a membership to a Prostitute Club, not a Parachute Club."

 "Oh man, I'm in trouble again; I really don't know what to do... I signed up for five jumps a week."

 The line went quiet and her friend picked up the phone and said that my daughter had fainted.

 Life as a senior citizen is not getting any easier but sometimes it can be fun.

Theologian Karl Barth once wrote, “Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.” Perhaps he’s right…and who am I to argue? But my attitude toward laughter is closer to Bill Cosby’s…sometimes, it is the only thing that gets me through the day.  Back to “business” tomorrow but I’ll share a little story that will lighten the message…and maybe bring a laugh.