This morning, Sue and I took our cameras downtown to take pictures. While we were walking, we talked about vocabulary words and how we ought to pick a new word or 2 every day and use it as often as we can that day. Yeah, like that will last longer than 30 minutes. In fact, Sue has already forgotten all about it. The word for today is ‘salubrious’… as in, “My! What a salubrious array of prescription drugs you have in the medicine cabinet, Mom”. Or, how about this: “Pork rinds are unsalubrious.”
Sue’s birthday is at the end of October. I asked her if she would like to go to Olive Garden for her birthday. She said, “Can we go today?” I meant a month and a half from now, but what the heck? I was hungry for a salubrious lunch. So we went and it was good. The waitress was kind of chirpy and too friendly, though. “Are WE ready to order yet?”
“Yes, WE are. Are you going to eat with us”? I just thought it. I didn’t say it. I’m not mean.
The point of my post today was to talk about what item is most useful to me. At this point, during lunch, I hadn’t decided what that is yet. At that moment, it would have been my fork. Earlier, when we were walking, it would have been my shoes. We talked about Gone With the Wind which was on TCM last night and we watched it. That was probably my 6th or 7th time to see it. Sue hasn’t seen it that many times, so I felt the need to point things out to her before they happened so she could be watching for them.
“The little girl is going to fall off her horse and die in this scene, so be ready for that.”
“Scarlet is going to shoot that guy in the face, then tell Melanie to take off her nightgown.”
“Any second now, a bunch of guys are going to attack Scarlet when she rides over the bridge.”
Sue said Gone With the Wind is to cinema what The Beatles are to music. Then our salad and bread sticks came. We stopped talking and started shoveling. And I thought some more. What is the most useful item I own? Vacuum cleaner is pretty useful. Washing machine is pretty useful. Lawnmower, dishes, chairs, pants…I can’t choose!
We got an air compressor last week. We had big plans for it, but we were afraid of it. We were supposed to let the motor run till the air pressure built up and the motor would shut off by itself, but it seemed like the pressure was getting awfully high and we would get scared and shut it off ourselves. Finally, we just let it run and the pressure built up and up and right when I had made peace with God and was ready to die, the motor shut itself off. Whew! I took back everything about being more tolerant, never cussing again and being less judgmental. I’ll save it for another time when I’m about to die. There’s no point in making peace with God if you’re already at peace with Him. You won’t have anything to do while you’re waiting to die. You’ll be bored.
I was going to remember my word, ‘salubrious’ by remembering that it begins like ‘salad’. But then, so does ‘salacious’ and do I really want to mistake one for the other? I wouldn’t want to ask the wrong person if they would like a salacious snack. It wouldn’t be useful and I’m trying to think of useful things.
There are too many useful things! I took off my glasses and went to splash some water on my face. Think! It’s hard to find my glasses when I’m not wearing them, so I just began to type some more. S0okdff ks;aduf aslkfh@ slasohyhg. Ahdofu & a;dhasljd. My spell check started to smell like kerosene and burning tires. I found my glasses and found my answer.
My glasses are the most useful thing I own!
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