Sheer “Genius”!?
Just how many do you know? 97 out of 100!?
My neighbor
falls into the “97” category! Genius!?
Just---ask him…If he remembers the query, he’ll tell
you.
We moved. Not
necessarily to escape my “Genius”, but,
I certainly
considered that “gift” a bonus!
I---thought!?
Eight miles!
Should have been enough? Yeah! Right!
He bought the
lot contiguous to our new home. Oh! Boy!
I constructed
our domicile, personally, with my own hands.
He
ordered
a “kit” house; had them deliver it dead center in
the precise
middle of his brand new vacant lot; all three
loads!
The excavator
had to wait two weeks for the material to be moved before
he could dig the
basement! Genius! Not the “digger”;
the neighbor!
When “Genius”-boy
and his red-neck relatives removed the material
from the building
site, they naturally piled everything “bass-ackwards”.
All the material
they needed first was on the “bottom” of the pile.
One “giant”
cluster-“mess”! Sheer Genius!
Six years later
and 3,000% over budget---Voila!
Then, a tornado blew
the entire fiasco to Arkansas
where it landed
in the Mississippi River!
Fortunately, it
took the “Genius” neighbor with it.
Now, I’m sure he’ll
brag that he’s been to New Orleans!
But, Ole Sol had
a sense-of-humor, for sure.
Knowing that I
am a self-proclaimed Writer,
in his will---the
Smart-ass bequeathed me…a dictionary!
My wife said, “I
told you not to give him that reference
book on
houses---Residential home construction
for ‘Dummies’!”
You just can’t
be nice to some people---just…Let ’em drown!
And---for sure…they
will!
Amen!
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