Just Sayin

I was watching tv the other day, and I came across a commercial with former NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. As he was driving a 1966 427 Corvett he was thinking back to when his father and he restored the car. He said that during the work they would talk. He found out a great deal about his father he didn't know. I thought about that, and started remembering when the old man and I did the same thing; work on cars and talk. I too found out things about my father that I never knew before. Later we would sit around and talk about life and work, cars old and new, and driving trucks. I miss my father, and that level of connection.

Ok one more, I used a mens bathroom and thought about the door. Sometimes when the bathroom door opens for someone to go in you can see men standing at the urinal doing thier business. I have always thought that if the door opened the other way the men wouldn't be seen. Just a thought. Does anyone ever take into account what is seen from outside. I mean do women and children need to see what goes on in there. While what goes on in there is no secret, it should be treated as one. 

I have said this before on this forum, but it bears repeating on this the 40th anniversary of his passing. While Elvis was the king of rock and roll, a movie star and a celebrity, we must also remember he was also a human being, and a good man. He grew up dirt poor, and would have stayed as such, had he not been a singer and movie star. He did what he had to do to take care of his family. That is what good men do. Let us not forget that. By dying young he paid a terrible price for taking care of the next 5 or 6 generations of his family. With fame comes money, and with money comes heartache, and pain. Elvis had his share of both. Elvis brought all that on by himself. But we all do that. We just do it differently. Dying young was the price to be paid for everyone else having a better life. We all do the same thing, whether it be a carpenter, lineman, truck driver, mason or whatever we do to make a living. We work to better our lives, and the lives of our families. Sometimes the cost is ...