I was sharing with my wife last week that being old has many drawbacks. Your aches and pains don’t just come around once in awhile — they move in like a bunch of bad relatives — and stay.
Press reports released by Oklahoma’s State Auditor, Cindy Byrd state that we (the Oklahoma Taxpayers) just got gipped out of two hundred million dollars. Yep, done stolen, paid out to our crooked politicians and probably spent.
I have written in an earlier article about when in high school our Agriculture teacher told my classmate that: “Your attitude is so low, you could crawl under the belly of a snake with a stove top hat on and never touch the snake”. My friend did not understand the teacher and he called it altitude.
Living in Allen, you get to watch a lot of humanity, just like in other small towns that populate our fruited plain. Another nice thing about writing a weekly article in a small town paper such as ours is you get to observe and even be a part of the details that make America interesting.