Hi Everyone
Back in 1994, we made our first trip to America to visit our friends who, at that time lived on the coast in the state of Maine. The first thing that we noted was that they did not lock the doors at night. I also asked if they kept a gun in the house. The answer was no and they did not know of anyone who did. In later visits, they had moved near to Cape Cod and we remarked to one of their friends that we had not seen any police patrols. Their answer was that there was hardly any crime so a police presence in the area was low. Maine is regarded as one of the safest states to live in so it was a shock that the latest mass shooting should occur there. Even more shocking was that the suspect had a history of mental health problems. It begs the question of how a person with a mental illness is allowed anywhere near a gun but, no doubt, many Americans are asking the same question. As with all these cases, there are no good endings with so many lives lost and families changed forever, but I hope that in the future Maine will still be a safe place to live without the need for keys and guns.
My friend who is quite short in stature has had a lifelong dream about having a liaison with, shall we say, an ample blond lady with ruby red lips, a large bosom, and wearing a nurse's uniform. This idea must have come from his days as a small boy when the dreaded school nurse paid a visit as it seemed that many of them, to us small kids fitted that description. She was very often also called the nit nurse as nits jumped from one small head to the next with a line of children waiting to have their heads scrapped by this imposing lady with a fine, hard stainless steel comb as the nits jumped to goodness knows where. Now, all these years on, bed bugs are crossing Europe. It seems to me that this week the media has given them more attention than the war in Ukraine as the media circus has moved on to the Middle East. No doubt in the next few days we will be getting a statement from a government minister about a new wave of illegal immigrants hitching a ride in people's cases and backpacks as they return from holiday or a business trip. I hope that the bed bugs understand that it will take over 12 months to review their application while they have a great time in all those hotels filled with fellow immigrants.
Apparently, if you go to Yale University in the US you can book yourself on to the "How to be Happy" course. That got me thinking about what makes the Main Contractor and myself happy. The first happy moment is waking up in the morning when we realise that we have survived another night, before then trying to work out what day it is. Now as we are approaching middle age, we have become creatures of habit with the next happy moment that we do not have to join the morning rush hour, just enjoying our cereal and fruit breakfast accompanied by all the 'good news' on breakfast television. Messages to and from family and friends make us happy and even when we received a parking fine this week we smiled. Another special moment is when we survive another day having disagreed only about six times. What should make us all happy is that, for all its faults and frustrations we live in peace in a beautiful part of this planet with the hope that the next generations will be as lucky as we have been.
Just a Thought:
Give a man a gun and he'll rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he will rob the world.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Two bed bugs met on a mattress. They married in the spring.
Brian
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