Coffee and a Smoke
Yesterday I wrote about the collapse, of sorts, of the banking industry. Then yesterday afternoon there was some coffee left over from the morning and I was drinking some coffee and smoking my pipe with my Cherry tobacco. Then it occurred to me I could write about a 150 care pile-up on a Michigan freeway because of a freak snowstorm. Or I could wite about it being alligator mating season here in Florida, but we have too much to worry about as it is. So as I was drinking some coffee and smoking my Cherry tobacco, I asked myself as to what I could write about today.
I label myself as a misanthrope. For those of you who might not know what that is, it's a person who doesn't like people. But the fact is, I'm not really, because there are times I actually like people. But I like to be alone, like I was yesterday afternoon drinking my coffee and smoking my pipe--alone. Those who know me will say I am nothing like a crotchety old guy. I just hide my true feelings. My wife says I can't even do that.
So, I think of myself as being something I'm not, but I do like being alone a lot. My wife says if she didn't encourage me to go out, I would just spend time by myself. She's right. I wouldn't know anything about anyone if not for her. I just keep to myself. But I'd make a lousy misanthrope and I will be the first to admit it. But maybe I'm a secret misanthrope like no one knowing Clark Kent is really superman, except for the rest of us who REALLY know.
But I enjoy a good cup of coffee with a pipe. I have snuck a little Rum in my coffee from time to time thinking no one knows I have done this, but everyone does. I've only done that a couple times and everyone knows when I do. There was no Rum in my coffee yesterday. I will sit by the pool as I did yesterday, and smoke my pipe and once in a great while I backside thinking a pool party with a bunch of people would be nice. Then I come to my senses, or sober up, as the case may be. A misanthrope would never think such thoughts. Actually, I make a lousy misanthrope, but don't tell the other misanthropes; they wouldn't accept me. Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.
Dave
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