What You Need to Know about Me

 

Wanna hear one of the strangest

things which has happened to me?

Some 50-miles from St. Louis,

out in the middle of nowhere, I

was checking out out a vacant

house for sale.

I discovered a high school

year book left behind which

was dated 1938. It was form

the same high school I had

attended in 1962.

My uncle, Buddy, had written

in it to the previous owner, a

classmate of his. When I phoned

my uncle days later in Phoenix

and told him of my find, he told

me that was really weird for he

was not really that popular in

school, and likely hadn’t signed

five or so yearbooks back then.

Imagine, 50-miles away in a remote

place, some 50-years later and my

uncle’s name and handwriting appear.

Spooky!

Wanna hear something else which

beats all? I’ve been a smoker for 60

years. And was a heavy drinker, both

of which should have done me in

years ago. And although more than

likely I’ll not make it to 100, at

nearly 74-years, I’m still here.

Let me ask you a question, do you

know what hangs on the wall and

whistles?...Custard pie! Now that

there is funny.

And guess what? There are still

lots of things you probably don’t

know about me.

As Humphrey Bogart told Claude

Rains to end the movie, Casablanca,

“I think this is the beginning of a

beautiful friendship.”

Sometimes I just need to let it all out.

                -30-

Chris Hanch 1-4-2021