A big “Thank You” to those of you
who read my column last Sunday in the Charleston Gazette about my faux pas at the music store.
It’s been the source of a lot of fun
for me this week. Several people wrote to say how much they enjoyed it – made
me feel a little like Erma Bombeck. Ha! That’s wishful thinkin’, I know, but
fun to imagine.
One nice man wrote to tell me that
he and his wife sang on their car trips for years the words to a John
Mellencamp song as "blind baby Jesus" until their daughters heard them
and stopped laughing long enough to tell them the correct words were
"blind faith in Jesus." How funny!
Another lady, who shall remain
nameless, once corrected a friend when she said she liked a new song by Vic
Damone. This lady said, “His name is Victor Moan.” On, my! How silly she must have
felt when she learned the truth!
Probably about as silly as I felt
when the salesman corrected me.
The good thing is, we’re all human
and we all make mistakes. Some of them will be offbeat, some will be funny and
make us feel foolish, and some will be just downright wrong.
Who knows why we do these things? Perhaps
it's fate's way of keeping us from getting too sure of ourselves; of letting us
know we’re still capable of making mistakes no matter how much education or
experience we have.
Or maybe it’s just a way of teaching
us to relax and laugh at ourselves once in a while—and not take life too
seriously.
Thankfully, most people laugh "with" us - not "at" us.
~~~
If you didn’t get a chance to read the
column and would like to, here’s the link again: http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20140907/GZ05/140909689/1116
3 comments:
I can't stop laughing! That is so funny!
Oh Mrs Horton!! I read that in the paper and laughed my head off!! Loved it!!
Can you write more like the one about Harold Smith? That's your style no doubt about it. Loved it!!!
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