Unlike Common Things

It seems months ago that my wife and I were in Branson, Missouri soaking up the local cuisine and entertainment variety shows, however it was but  three weeks ago. Every time we go to Branson I cannot help but view that trip as an AARP response to the college-sets 'spring break' trek. Actually, I view the two experience of opposite-end age groups as parallel dissimilarities. (If that is not an oxymoron nothing IS).

Both the Branson 'babes' and the spring break dollies wear T-shirts with printing on the front. The young chicks likely have a suggestive-slogan across 'points' of interest, which will later be in a wet T-shirt contest; the older hens have bragging print about grandkids across a sloping T-shirts that only get wet in Tide-wash water. The Branson tourist go to bed about the time spring-breakers are 'going-out.' The Branson 'old-timers' are struggling to get out of their beds, gripped with arthritic-pain about the time the youngins' are 'stubling-into bed' feeling no-pain! Many spring-breakers 'do drugs' to get wasted while most Seniors 'do drugs' not to feel wasted!

One Branson evening, I was watching a television documentary before bedtime. The topic was about that time in 1960, when Roman Catholic Presidential candidate, JFK was answering all those questions about his Catholic faith. Why those Southern Baptist ministerial association preachers really grilled that young fella. It caused me to believe that if we let too much religion influence our government, we may be moving to become like some of those Middle East countries where the government endorse only one religion and kill others who believe differently!

The next morning, I mentioned the documentary to my dear friend who is Baptist. He said he'd give me a solid 'tip' about his Baptist brethren. My friend said, "You don't ever want to take a Baptist fishing with you because he'll drink all your beer; take two Baptist because neither one will drink your beer."

P.s. A promise is a promise to keep and I'll not break mine talking about guns in our society until February 14, 2013, which is the anniversary of the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. In the meanwhile, you research how many people died in that 1929 killing...then think about our times!