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Ramblin' Roses and Flyin' Bricks
The other morning I got up bright and fairly early and I knew right off the bat something was wrong. I didn't hurt anywhere and I felt good all over and I was all full of energy. I bent over a couple of times to see if my aches and pains would return, but they didn't. Lots of folks would be tickled silly to feel like I was feeling, but that's where they're wrong. A fellow my age has to look out for those good-feeling spells or he's headed straight for bad trouble. I took my time dressing, hoping maybe I would feel worse after a time, but I was still feeling good, so I went out on the porch and took a deep breath of clean, cool air, but it only made me feel better. On account of I've got so much sense, I sat down on the top step and took a calm, deliberate view of the situation. Better Watch Out A suddenly-good feeling like I was having is what causes folks to succumb, which is the same thing as dying. They think they can do a lot of work and the first thing they know their doctor is explaining all about angina pectoris which is the same as heart trouble in poor folks. Well, I can't afford angina and I certainly don't want any kind of heart trouble, so I just sat there for quite a spell, hoping my energy would kind of pass off. Looking out across the yard I saw a lot of tall weeds that needing cutting and the grass was high and unsightly and there were a lot of other things that needed doing. However, I am a man of extra strong will power and I refused to yield to the temptations of working. I just sat there and enjoyed resisting the urge to labor and pretty soon I had myself under control again. I got up to come to town and I reckon sitting there so long caused one of my legs to buckle, because something kind of snapped in my back-bone and a lot of the old familiar aches and pains returned. I was my old self again and everything was bright and rosy. How to Put Things off I honestly believe half of my friends who have passed on did to because they got an idea they were feeling young. You have sure got to be careful when a spell like that hits you. A fellow can put things off until he's feeling better, which is a good excuse, but after he gets to feeling better he had better put 'em off again. It's easy to think up an excuse for not doing something. It can be too wet or too dry or too windy or you can be too busy at the office or store or the tools can be loaned out. The main idea, of course, is to keep on putting 'em off. For instance, I have an old shed back of my house that's powerful unsightly and it's full of junk I never plan to use. For fifteen years now I've been "laying off" to clean up that house and nail a few loose boards back on. Every now and then I go out and look over the project and figure maybe I'll get around to it in the next few weeks. Always put off something at least two weeks, on account of something is bound to happen to keep you from doing it. Never put off anything until tomorrow. That's too close and too dangerous. It sort of worries me to think how close I came to making a bad mistake the morning I was felling so frisky. Suppose I had yielded to the urge to work and got out there in the yard with a swing-blade and cut a bunch of tall weeds. That would have only made the rest of the yard look worse and the next morning I might have finished it up, which would have exposed the shed more to public view and I would have had to start work on it. After I had the shed all fixed up, the dead limbs on the trees would have looked mighty unsightly, so I would have been forced to trim up the trees and I might have fallen out of one and broken my hip. That's what old people have got to be careful about. Besides, if I ever break a hip it's going to be caused from stepping in a boat or chasing a crippled squirrel through the woods. It sure ain't going to be from falling out of no tree.
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