Why? Because I plan to drive this old truck and my motorcycle for the rest of my life. Besides, retirees need to keep themselves busy. — My Dodge… When my daddy died in 2004 I was given ownership of the 2 wheel drive, 1988 Dodge D150, half ton, short bed pickup my daddy bought new when he retired. Daddy was tough on that truck. When I got it there wasn’t a body panel on the entire…

Or, why did the chicken do jumping jacks? — A few years back I deliberately allowed my drivers license to expire. You see, I wanted to know how long I could drive without a license and get away with it. All the while I maintained tags and insurance on my car, truck and motorcycle, kept my inspections up to date…

I guess some things just aren’t supposed to make sense even on a profit and loss statement. — Why do you think that is? You never realize how attached you are to your body parts until you lose one. -voice of experience I’m not arguing that pay for women is not lower than pay for men — it is lower — but this has puzzled me for years…

The Daze of my Youth return to me in the most unusual ways and at the strangest times. And no, this is not a story about Venetian blinds. — While a teenager in what seems so long ago it might have been in a previous lifetime, this old boomer wasn’t always following the straight and narrow path I follow today. I started smoking pot (marijuana) in 1971 when I was in the 10th grade at James B Dudley Sr…

He never sent me to drug test again. — As some of you know I spent much of my life as a CDL truck driver. When I was driving for National Welder’s Supply my boss told me one morning that I was to take a drug test that afternoon. So for lunch I ate 2 whole packs of poppy…

Buried under mounds of imaginary coins, Banker found the secret to solving the planet’s woes. All he had to do was convert all the money in his bank to crypto, and the world would have no more worries. — Maginary, Ohio — Don D Banker was shocked when his discovered that many, if not most of his customers, were pulling their money from his bank, Royalty Trust and Savings, to invest in green cryptocurrency. It didn’t take long before he discovered why.

Worldwide there were protests for and against the Chiogwata with French President Emmanuel Macron saying, “Gui sait, peut-être qu’ils sont savoureux?” — Kansas City, Missouri, While King Watsegutse of the Chiogwata Nation has not yet landed in New York City, protests are springing up across North America and beyond. The Chiogwata are a tribe of hairy little people first discovered to be living on Antarctica in 1819 before disappearing only to be…