The Daily Dose/May 12, 2021
By Gaylon Kent
America’s Funniest Guy
Editor’s Note: Gaylon is working on a project and most elements of The Daily Dose – Leading Off, The Sunday Bottom 5, On This Date, Some Philosophy Crap, Trivia – are either on hiatus or running intermittently. Your full-service Daily Dose will return, probably later this spring, though perhaps in the summer.
Today At The Site
Writing worth reading. Usually.
The Diary of a Nobody – At the hotel, Sparrow slashes a water bottle with his new knife. Today’s Diary.
Utter catastrophe was averted this morning while restocking the water in sundry stand refrigerator…There was a fresh case of that fancy-pants $2.50/bottle fancy water to open and it’s got that infernal shrink wrap around it and ol’ Sparrow is in the habit of using the knife for this evolution…Of course, you must take care not to slash open a water bottle and that wasn’t a problem until this morning.
I don’t know if I’m becoming disabled or if yours truly wasn’t paying proper attention but a bottle was slashed today…Well, not really slashed, more like a slit, but no matter, it wasn’t salable and had to be tossed…My hands aren’t shaking nor is my mind wandering, too much, so I suspect some extra attention next time will avoid future slashings.
Some Philosophy Crap
The wisdom of the ages. Whatever.
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary, degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
Henry David Thoreau
Lecture at Concord Lyceum
4/11/1838
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