Sometimes I wonder why is the Frisbee getting bigger, then it hits me.....

     I have to admit this is a line I read in a book (A Sudden Light by Garth Stein) but it seemed so appropriate for life I had to use it.  Don't you sometimes feel like you see things but at the same time oblivious or unaware of the pending outcome?  It's easy to get mesmerized by something right before you are jolted back to reality.

     It's comical the way it's written but that seems like life, there are many events in life that have a comical ending.  I remember the time my brother-in-law (Bud) and I were bringing a load of lumber and drywall home from the lumber store that I had bought for a home project.  We loaded my small truck (Toyota pickup) with the lumber first and put the drywall on top because the drywall was too wide to sit flat on truck bed.  The lumber filled the bed so that the drywall would fit nicely on top of the wheel wells and we could be assured the edges of the drywall would not get damaged.  Pretty damn smart, right!

     I was driving down Jungermann road approaching Spencer road, which is at the top of a hill.  The light was green as we reached the intersection, which I was happy about since stopping abruptly would cause the load to shift forward and possibly damaging the drywall.  The thing I didn't expect was that the small hill at the intersection gave the load just enough lift that to make it airborne and with the speed of the truck it exited right in the middle of the intersection.  Amazingly the complete load landed undamaged, almost like it had been purposely stacked there.

     But now we have an emergency situation, the complete load of lumber and drywall that we meticulously loaded in the truck was laying on the pavement.  Well, all I can say is you have never seen two people reload a truck faster than Bud and I did on the afternoon without any assistance from the onlookers. Whew!

     Then I remember another embarrassing moment when Bud and I were picking a new coach and chair Mimi had bought at Sears.  It was delivered to the store in St. Charles so I wouldn't have to drive to downtown St. Louis.  I had a pickup truck so I expected this to be an easy task.  Bud was there to help as always.  We loaded the furniture, putting the couch in first then the chair turned upside down on top, which seemed like a good plan, at least at the time.  We figured the weight of the furniture would hold everything in place and we weren't going very far anyway.  A word of advice here is appropriate, when loading a couch and chair with cushions, take the cushions off.  A cushion on another cushion is bouncy, enough said.

     So we are driving down Jungermann road, is this sounding familiar, when we are approaching Spencer road, sounding more familiar, when we reach the hill (from now on known as the devil hill).  Sometimes it takes me a couple times to learn the obvious.  The light is green and as we reach the peak of the hill I see in my rear view mirror the chair shooting toward the sky spinning like a gymnast and it stuck the landing, but not in a good way.  It did indeed land but points were deducted for a poor landing, as were points from my delivery skills when I relayed the story to Mimi.

     I have learned from these lessons and improved my delivery skills (no longer mesmerized by the devil hill) but I've noticed the requests for my help have dwindled, I don't know why.