Valentine's Day

/

Way back long before people were concerned about someone's feelings being hurt, the teachers would have each of us decorate an old shoe box and set it in the window in hopes of getting a Valentine from our admirers. 

Choosing an appropriate message for 22 classmates out of 30 cheesy sounding cards was a challenge as you didn't want to give too personal a card to anyone except little Susi Doltmeyer who you hoped would respond in kind. 

The day would finally arrive when we opened up our cards and would find out that Susi didn't even give me a card but gave Jimmy Quazar a card and a chocolate bar

Read More

Butt Dialing

/

Some of you are of the age that you can actually remember what a rotary dial phones. For those of you too young for such mechanical dinosaurs, it consisted of a dial on top of a black box that made a nice clickity-clack sound with each number you dialed. Think the movie poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder. Oh, wait, you are probably too young for that, too.

If your finger slipped off or you made an error while using a rotary phone, you had to hang up and start all over again. Somehow in the dark recesses of a rusty mind I recall our number when I was a kid. It was Gladstone 359. So you dialed GL359 to reach us. 

Read More

Lollipop Bubble Crush Saga

/

The Internet is an amazing tool that allows us to not only gather information but to connect with friends all over the world.

One of the primary ways we do that is through a page called Facebook. The user puts in pictures and information about his or herself and suddenly their entire lives are out there for the rest of the world to see whether we want to or not.

Read More

Vinegar and Baking Soda

/

Ol' Dutch hadn't been in the bachelor way very long before certain older women began teaching him some of the better ways of cleaning. I am not sure if that was due to needing some help in that department or just in the interest of their wanting to raise another son.

Two products immediately came into action in the war against germs and odors both of which a bachelor has a plethora of: baking soda and vinegar.

Read More

I thought you would change

/

No matter where Trixie and I go, people always feel it’s their God given duty to help us along the way to harmonious matrimony.

Most of the people who seem intent on this event taking place don’t seem to be in that great of an undertaking of their own or have gone down the aisle multiple times thereby annulling their reliability as an expert on happiness.

 Now Ol' Dutch used to have a farm and he soon found out that you don’t have to own the cow to milk it and has tried to live by that edict after losing the cow I did own. Hence, I am not married.

Read More