Today I felt BAD, Bad, bad
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
August 6, 2017 12:55pm CST
Today I felt BAD, Bad, bad -
There are such days in the lives of people, people here, people there, just people anywhere.
Out of bed in the morning, cup of yesterday's cold coffee, boss on the telephone yelling, "Hurry up. You are L-A-T-E for work," and the dog peed on the morning newspaper.
I felt bad, really bad.
Then I looked at my left arm. At the end of that arm was my hand. It was inside of my baseball glove. Now, don't ask me how the glove got onto my left hand. It just got on there.
No wonder I felt bad.
How can a person feel anything with a baseball glove on their feeling hand?
I ask you.
Image: Cannot feel a thing through this glove - Pixabay.com
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
7 Aug 17
Maybe the dog put it there because after he peed on the newspaper he wanted to go out for a walk or eat and so he or she was mad and did that to you or maybe it was a dream and you woke up and no baseball glove on you at all and you just have a normal arm with a normal hand.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
7 Aug 17
@Hannihar - Ms Hanni - Even the hound would have been unable to feel anything through that baseball glove. As to dreaming, that is something I do most often while I am wide awake. The one dream that I can remember having was the one when I was dreaming about wanting to have a dream in which my doggie was carefully drying off the morning newspaper so that I might be able to read it. The more he tried to dry the paper, the sloppier wet it became. When I finally got to pick up the wet paper I noticed that the printing had been a problem for either the printer or for the typographer, There was not one letter "P" to be seen in the entire newspaper. -Gus-
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
8 Aug 17
@Hannihar - Ms Hanni - Not to be forgotten was my reaction and the reactions of my comrades to the "Air Force Times" newspaper back in our enlisted days in the USAF. We were always underpaid and "poverty-stricken" GIs back then, so we shared one copy of that newspaper between the lot of us troops. The common comment made by the next reader whenever the paper was handed down was "What did they take away from us this week?" Note: There was typically something "they" took from us most every time, too. -Gus-
@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
8 Aug 17
@Ceerios
Did the dog look at you with his or her eyes telling you he or she did the best they could in drying in off? Newspaper people make mistakes. We have the Jerusalem Post and I have found mistakes in their paper at times too. Too bad you don't have a cat or if you do you can use the papers for her food and water since it was probably not worth reading anyway.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
7 Aug 17
I think if a baseball had been placed inside the glove your feeling hand would of felt something. No need to feel bad because you are retired. No more phone calls yelling at you for being late. No more cold cups of coffee or coffee spellling in your lap as you drive madly to work. So today if you feel bad, really bad, it must mean that you need to take a ride on your new scooter and feel the sunshine on your face, the breeze on your back, and the cool shadows as you roll through the trees.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
8 Aug 17
@poehere - Just because I am what you say of me, you should not discount the great fun it is that I have learning new ways to make fun and enjoy dealing with all of my Mill Otter (MyLotter} friends. I even enjoy dealing with the ones I dislike, of whom, fortunately, there are very few indeed.
Here is an old saying purported to have originated in NASA back in the Moon Landing days. I try hard to follow that saying and to live by its words -
:"Illegitimi Non Carborundum "
There are many variations to the saying, but its merit overall is to be seen in its large presence of explanation on the search engines. It is a make-believe Latin saying worthy of being a guide to tranquil living.
-Gus-
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
7 Aug 17
@Ceerios Oh Gus, you are up to your old tricks again. You are one of the most interesting writers on the site. You always have a hidden meaning written in your word. That is what makes it so much fun to read them and give you back a witty answer.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
6 Aug 17
Aw Gus..did you take it off or did you go play ball?
DonĀ“t want dear friend Gus feeling bad now do we?
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
6 Aug 17
@TiarasOceanView - Well now, there are some folks out there who probably really want Gus to feel bad for once in his life, but that will take them many more years to accomplish. It is useful to have something between some stuff in this world and a person's feelings. -Gus-
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Aug 17
leave the baseball glove, sir, and be at work now. hahaha! just kidding.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
7 Aug 17
@ridingbet - Ms Ingrid - I want to tell you "Thanks" because your comment made me laugh and be happy on this really rainy morning. It was noisy round here, too, for every frog in the world came to visit me and sing their croaky songs. -Gus-
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
8 Aug 17
@ridingbet - Ms Ingrid - I must possess jots of frog genes. -Gus-
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
8 Aug 17
@Ceerios oh, we have a very big frog here that croaks like an old man who snores or belches at night. after every rain in the evening, this old frog never misses his croaks, much to the irritability of the cats and dogs, and passersby alike.
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@andriaperry (116936)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 Aug 17
Because you play the game and the game is fun and that makes YOU feel good to have the glove on your left hand when you catch the ball for an OUT.
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