Weekend Anecdote
I'm a bit chagrined that I completely missed the comedy potential inherent in Jeff Culbreath's hiatus notice. It seemed completely unfunny to me, mostly because Jeff is one of my favorites. He's worried about his memory but I worry he's forgetting us. (rimshot.) But Bill Luse vented and humorously so. I'm surprised he got that much material out of that.
I mentioned to him (Bill) about an anecdote that happened over the weekend. He'd said he'd sure be a bloggin' that and now I'm thinking he'd do a better job of it but here goes:
I was out jogging in a local park, near the end of my run when up ahead I see two people who, having heard my 200+ lbs rumbling like a runaway freight train, frantically start pulling up their pants.
My first thought was that it was probably two guys because I'd read about Columbus parks being used as trysts for gays. I slowed to a walk to give them time, but as I got closer I saw that it was a guy and a girl and they couldn't have been more than 17 or 18, though I'm getting less reliable on ages as I age. Of course my next thought had to be fought off vigorously - i.e. that I shouldn't have quit runnin'. That ol' bugbear concupisence is nothing if not reliable. The second thought was imagining that maybe I'd caused coitus interuptus and prevented the tragedy of an abortion. But then I considered that they might've had the kid and I prevented a life. Or, far more likely, neither. But the world is indeed pregnant with possibilities...it felt like a scene from Capra's movie.
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