Sickness Ain't All That

Perhaps you have been sick at one time or another. That is a joke that I will get back to in a minute. I am sick today. Did that stop me from playing golf with the Seafood King? No siree. I hiked eighteen holes, in the wind, feeling like crap. My mother always said I didn't have good sense. Plus rumors that the new clubs would improve my play are unfounded. Maybe this has happened to you. You get chummy with a couple and find that one person is perfectly lovely and the other, usually the husband, is insufferable. I can think of three couples we've been friends with that fit that description. When I say that we were friends with these couples, that is a stretch, because I am more willing to overlook the shortcomings of these folks than is the Lovely Mrs. Sneed. She might not classify us a friends because has more good sense than me. We met this couple, Mike and Barbara, back in the days when we were church types. Mrs. Sneed grew up in religious family and her upbringing carried on in our family for years, before dying out like the seed that fell on rocky soil. Anyway, that's how we met these folks. Mike and Barbara had been around church-wise. They had tried out many denominations and found nothing that suited them. They had some sort of void in their lives they were desperate to fill. The problems generally centered around Mike who was the pain in the equation. He had trouble staying out of trouble, job-wise, church-wise and every other-wise. Mike would say the most idiotic things just out of the blue. It would leave you staring at him trying to figure out if he was kidding. He once as asked us if we had ever had lemonade. Looked us right in the eye and asked. It was made doubly bizarre by the fact that Mrs. Sneed had mixed up the batch of lemonade that he was drinking. Another problem was that Mike lied about all things great and small. The all-time whopper was told when he applied for an overseas job and relocated to another state to undergo a year's training, prior to being posted. The job was assignment was in a location not suitable for children, so persons with kids were not eligible to be hired. Mike's solution? He lied about it figuring that at the end of the year the employer would be so impressed with him that they would waive the no-kid rule. He got 86ed. Anyway, when I opened this post with the question, have you ever been sick, I'm remembering old Mike and Barbara and wonder what became of them. A lasting part of Sneed lore includes the question, "Have you ever had lemonade?" So here's the question. Does "couple friends" work for you? Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky Tag: Daily Life Personal Finance Humor