Fred, some great stuff for pondering. Quote: “If you perceive some one is rambling on, to make themselves appear knowledgeable, just get up and walk away”. Now that’s good. Works great. Don’t have to listen to the rambling and get yourself aggravated any longer.
Used to do that, however I ran into a snag. When I came back the mouth was still spewing forth great swelling words of nothingness. Now instead of a ramble there was a choir of rumble with other voices joining in. Worse than before and even more aggravation. Now what? Get up and walk away for good? Good old Ruthie. She always inspires me. While mulling over this continuing phenomena I was watching Ruth watering the flower bed just outside my office window. The neighbor walking by saw Ruthie, stopped, and they started talking. Whatever they were yacking about seemed to get more interesting, so Rue laid the hose down and walked down the drive as her friend walked up. After awhile I noticed the water still running and was washing the dirt out of the flower bed and making a mess on the lawn. Ruthie, Ruthie, I thought, leaving the thing run and walking away is not the way it should be done. Babe, you will have a real mess when you come back. So getting up, going out and shutting off the flow at the spigot took care of the problem. Walking back in it hit me! Ruthie your a genius. That's it! Shut off the rambling at it’s source and it will stop. Brilliant! Works great! However every once in a while someone will open up their spigot without anything on the other end. So the moral of the story is there is always two sides to everything. Up and down. Left and right. Inside and outside. And . . . . walk away or turn it off.
A slant from Gramps. Always looking for a better way.
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Grampa Doug
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