"There's one thing about baldness; it's neat." - Don Herold

From a friend's Facebook page earlier today.

And if you're not old enough to hear Foghorn Leghorn's voice as he says that to Sylvester....you're too young.

On that topic:
I told Pam at lunch today, "It depends on who you're standing next to." That is, so many things in life are relative. Are you noticeably overweight? Depends on who you're standing next to. Bald? Well dressed? Old?

If I stand next to people at church I'm old, but out here in Sun City I'm a relative whipper-snapper. Being the oldest at Pathway is no disadvantage, but being young in Sun City can be irritating.

I was at Starbucks a little before 7 working on my sermon and sermon calendar. Just before lunch I left there and drove over to the metal shop two blocks away to media blast the front motor mounts. I really dislike going in there. Just inside the door is a large round table that always - morning or afternoon - has a half dozen old guys sitting there trading stories. They, and almost everyone working back in the shop, is 75+ and worked in the trades. In walks a guy who is in his mid-60's and they look at me like I'm an intruder not to be trusted. I paid my dues, signed in at the computer, but for some reason I don't belong there. Occasionally one of them will ask, with a tone of suspicion, "What are you here to do?" I've tried being as cheerful and friendly as I can be but so far I haven't won them over.

From there home, but with a stop at the Ace Hardware along the way to get four Grade 8 nuts for the aforementioned motor mounts. Everyone who works there and 90% of the customers are Sun City residents...where the average age is 83. I went over to the front corner of the store, got my Grade 8 nuts in the correct size & thread pitch, and was headed back to the cash register when one of the 70+ guys who works there walks up. "Did you find everything you need?"
Yes.
"Are you sure you need Grade 8?"
OK, color me cynical but in the context of this 'hood, and with plenty of similar experiences as precedent, the implication was that the kid didn't know what he was doing and grabbed the wrong nuts.
And if you're tittering at all of this, well, I guess Jr. Hi wasn't all that long ago. Yes, I've got Grade 8 nuts. And I'm proud of it.

I WANT ONE!!
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The two candidates for the Kentucky Senate seat debated last night. The incumbent is Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader. His opponent, Allison Lundergon Grimes, has had some problems in their debates and last night was no exception. Her biggest downside is that for the second time in as many months she refused to answer the question, "Did you vote for Obama in the last election?" If she says no the Democrats aren't going to be happy, but if she says yes she'll have trouble in a state where the President is especially unpopular, so she decided to fall back on the "sanctity of the secret ballot."
So much for sanctity. This evening's headline: "Democratic Party goes dark in Kentucky."
I guess the party bosses decided her no-win predicament meant a no-win candidate.

If I keep chipping away at all the pesky tasks on my to-do list I'm bound to get through them eventually, right?