I Was Wrong

I’m sure that I’ve told you before how much I respect and love my son-in-law Kenny, and what a hard worker he is. I think I’ve even said that he’s always there when we need him. But as much as it pains me to admit it, it turns out I was wrong. The man’s a slacker.

Kenny is a GM-trained master mechanic, and he knows how to take apart and put together anything mechanical. I’ve been wanting him to come over and tune up the Chrysler convertible we bought last week, but because he works long hours every day keeping the school buses for our town running, I haven’t pressured him too much about it. Yeah, I remind him four or five times a day, but that’s not pressure, right? I figured having a 3-day weekend, he would have plenty of time to take care of things for me.

That’s where I found out just how wrong I’ve been about him. We got a message late Friday night that Kenny was in the hospital. Can you believe he decided to have his gallbladder out rather than come and work on my car? Just when you think you know somebody.

I wrote in a blog post about our trip to Texas to pick up the old car that the night we got to the town where I bought it, we had dinner at Chili’s, and Kenny got really sick and was up all night. At that time, we thought it was food poisoning. But it turns out that it was his gallbladder.

He had surgery yesterday afternoon, and hopefully he will be on the mend soon. I see no reason why he couldn’t come and work on my car by Monday, do you?

Get well soon, Kenny! We love you.

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And finally, here’s a chuckle to start your day from the collection of funny signs we see in our travels and that our readers share with us.

Thought For The Day – Bad days are also part of a very good life.