Fire burned in the kitchen stove and the coffee pot was still warm. He lifted the pot and drank from it; and stood still.”
–Ernest Haycox (Action By Night)
I’ve been waitin’ for yuh, Pard. Throw yur spurs under the table, while I bring the coffee. Careful now, yuh know the missus don’t want the floor all scratched up. What d’ yuh think, Pard? January’s almost over, only a sliver of it left. Yuh been practicin’ yur good deeds and resolutions? Here yuh go, filled right up to the brim. Don’t yuh go spillin’ it none as I didn’t put it on a saucer. Folks in olden times used to drink out of their saucer, reckoned it cooled the scaldiin’ coffee down some. At least I gave yuh a cup, I’m not gonna force yuh to drink from the pot.
Say, Pard, I read the other day that 82% of Gen. Z have had a traumatic experience. Well, if they’re countin’ Biden and Harris bein’ elected I would say it would be 100%. But, here’ my point. What is a traumatic experience? What Gen. Z calls one and you and I call one might be totally different. Fact is I don’t think droppin’ a double-grande, mucho, vanilla-carmel Stabucks coffee a traumatic experience. Now, stubbin’ yur toe in the middle of the night when yur raidin’ the icebox might hurt like the thunder, but it don’t rate as a traumatic experience. Now if ol’ Miss Mable Brooks died, the spinster down the road, that most likely wouldn’t be traumatic either, for she don’t have no kinfolk. Maybe for her cat. For a snowflake or twinkie, bein’ told to get up an’ go to work might be a traumatic experience.
Well, one thing for sure, is that they better be gettin’ ready, for the world’s gonna be tremblin’ soon. If folks think this virus is bad, they need to read what is gonna happen in the Book of Revelation. Why this ol’ bug will be minor compared to what will comin’ upon the earth. That’s why we are lookin’ up, gettin’ ready now for that homecomin’. This ol’ boy ain’t plannin’ on bein’ around for no Tribulation. Yuh talk about a traumatic experience, well, sure enough, that time will have plenty of them.
Ahhh, coffee’s good this mornin’, so yuh don’t have to rush off. Yuh be watchful out there, now! And if’n yuh don’t check yur cinch and yuh fall to the ground, well, the shaken yuh might bring could be a traumatic experience.
Vaya con Dios.