Thoughts for the day

[Jeff Wrangler]

A friend of mine knew this couple who married late in life and between them they had daughters named April, Fay and June.

I wonder what they had against May as a name?    I mean, Fay is OK, as in Fay Wray, but it sort of breaks up the flow. 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I think April and June belonged to one and Fay belonged to another, so they didn't have any coordination on it.

[CellarDweller]

For those who can't make it out:

8 out of 10 Rocky Mountian and Burlington High School Students do not smoke cigarettes in a typical month.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Oh that is weird Chuck, I got one of those in my town too.

Its a conspiracy! 

[Jeff Wrangler]

I should start carrying a small notebook with me so I can record the event when I notice a particularly attractive guy. Like the beauteous young man I saw at the train station on my way to visit my dad last Saturday.

He might have been about 5-8 or 5-9. He wasn't terribly tall, and he was very young, looked to be college age to me. He had slightly bushy light brown hair. I couldn't see the color of his eyes, but I'm betting they were blue. He was clean-shaven, and he had full lips and a rather longish, aristocratic-looking nose. He was wearing a yellow short-sleeved polo shirt, untucked, baggy jeans, and flip-flops. He had a back pack, and he was carrying a duffel and one of those clothing bags like you carry a suit in. He was clearly athletic; his pecs swelled the bosom of his shirt in a manly way, and his biceps filled the sleeve openings completely, in a way that always makes me take notice.

I all-too-soon lost sight of him in the crowd, so imagine my surprise when I saw him again in the Lancaster train station. I more-or-less followed this attractive vision of young manhood down to the sidewalk in front of the station; I was headed there anyway to wait for my dad to pick me up. I positioned myself where I could observe him more closely. I noticed that his duffel was a Nike bag, blue with a silver "Swoosh" logo, and on the logo was hand printed the name Kreider, a very common Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, surname.

As I watched, an older woman in a red Toyota drove up and got out of the car. The young man kissed her, and I heard him call her "Mom," though to my eyes she looked old enough to be his grandmother; perhaps the young man was the baby of a family of several children. They loaded his luggage in the car, then they got in and drove off. Soon thereafter my dad arrived to pick me up.

A beauteous, athletic young man. ... 

[injest]

Jeff that was a beautiful description...

thank you for sharing it with us. Makes me smile.

 

[loneleeb3]

Jeff, that was beautiful.
I feel like i was there with you.
I love watching people, thinking about their lives where they are going what they are doing.
Just brief moments of interaction in someone elses life even if they are unaware.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Jeff that was a beautiful description...

thank you for sharing it with us. Makes me smile.

 

Jeff, that was beautiful.
I feel like i was there with you.
I love watching people, thinking about their lives where they are going what they are doing.
Just brief moments of interaction in someone elses life even if they are unaware.

Thanks! Seeing the young man made me smile, too. Like a beautiful work of art. 

"For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels." 

[Jeff Wrangler]

On my way to work this morning, I passed a young construction worker who looked just like the actor Josh Duhamel! 

[Shasta542]

You shoulda faked a flat!