Rockingham Remembered
Short Stories II
Ramblings of a Retired Mind
I was thinking about how a status symbol of
today is those cell phones that everyone has
clipped onto their belt or purse. I can't afford
one. So, I'm wearing my garage door opener. I
also made a cover for my hearing aid and now I
have what they call blue teeth, I think.

You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before
I realized that people didn't like me anyway.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of
missing husbands on beer cans!

I was thinking about old age and decided that old
age is 'when you still have something on the ball,
but you are just too tired to bounce it.'

I thought about making a fitness movie for folks
my age, and call it 'Pumping Rust'.

I've gotten that dreaded furniture disease. That's
when your chest is falling into your drawers!

When people see a cat's litter box, they always
say, 'Oh, have you got a cat?' Just once I want to
say, 'No, it's for company!'

Employment application blanks always ask who is
to be notified in case of an emergency. I think
you should write, 'A Good Doctor'!

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the
Post Office? What are we supposed to do...write
to these men?  Why don't they just put their
pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen
could lo ok for them while they deliver the mail?
Or better yet, arrest them while they are taking
their pictures!

I was thinking about how people seem to read
the Bible a whole lot more as they get older.
Then, it dawned on me, they were cramming for
their finals.

As for me, I'm just hoping God grades on the
curve.