I remember being a kid
and staying home from school when I was sick…this meant I got to see the early morning
cartoon shows…for some reason, on the local channel they would throw in the
daily farm report from the Chicago Board of Trade…this programming decision
made no sense at all since most of the people watching the show were probably
11 and under…they’d talk about hog futures and pork bellies…they’d give the
price of June corn futures…and soybeans…sure didn’t make any sense to this 11
year old kid…and even now it don’t make no sense to me…it’s funny I remember
that all these years later…staying home also meant plenty of 7-up and some
toast followed by an afternoon nap…7-up was always the medicine of choice
around our house for colds…not sure how it started but I still follow that
regimen to this day…maybe we got the idea from my grandfather who advocated a
shot of whiskey for anything…cold?...shot of whiskey…flu?...shot of
whiskey…broken arm?...shot of whiskey…it didn’t’ matter what you had…I’d be
lying if I said I didn’t combine those methods sometimes for my problems these
days.
