‘Set in your ways!’

Dad’s Bouncing Baby

I’ve been bouncing all my life

Some fear I’ll never make a wife

Used to bounce on my daddy’s knee

And he was very proud of me.

Said I was darling every ounce

Yet all I could do was bounce and bounce

Couldn’t change for all the world

I was daddy’s bouncing baby girl.

 excerpt from a poem by Stella Kelly Poole

The above is from a book of poems written and published by Bonnie’s (Organic Discourse) ‘Granny’. I keep two books handy here at my little desk, Come Sing With Me by Granny Poole and The Conversation Piece, given to me by Myra (Respice, Prospice).

The words in the poem ‘Couldn’t Change for all the world’, tied to a line I read in the book from Myra:  Is there something that would shock the socks off your family and friends if you would do?

 And I thought we are all pretty predictable. And there are things that we never do, and would not think of doing.  Now I am not thinking of something immoral, illegal or political. Something like:  If my daddy had eaten a banana I would have fainted.  Something in his mind would NOT let him like a banana.

I have a good friend Dallas (I think everyone knows that). His last occupation (other than being the Attorney for Wiley Enterprises), was raising turkeys. Because of a childhood incident on a farm, he cannot stomach chicken, but eats turkey. So it I saw Dallas with a chicken leg, I would be shocked.

If I announced I was going to attend a Rock Concert (or any concert) my family would think I had flipped. (I have never been a Concert person, no matter the names involved). 

If Sherry would say “Let’s fly around the world!”  I would immediately take her to the doctor. She does not like to fly.

So, what about you? What would be out of character for you to do?

Nite Shipslog

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