Smiley Anders for Sept. 13, 2008
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Dear Smiley: As I was looking for ways to pass the time while caught in the early gridlock from New Orleans the Saturday morning before Gustav, I began to ponder what was REALLY important to people as I examined what they had packed.
One Jeep managed to tie down to the cargo rack TEN suitcases — of beer.
Another driver was having what appeared to be a quite animated conversation with the GPS perched on his left wrist — his Grey Parrot Sidekick!
The best, and also most confusing, thing I saw was a pickup truck with four very worried-looking men in the cab.
In the truck bed were ice chests, boxes and bags of groceries, luggage, a small electric freezer, four fishing poles, a barbecue pit — and, carefully tied down in its pet carrier cage, a big red rooster!
Still worrying about Rojo — was he their pet or for the pit?
Sandra Ramirez
St. Amant
Men in trees
Dear Smiley: The wind and rain had not stopped when my hubby and his buddies were gleefully wielding their many chainsaws for anyone who needed it. No requests needed to be made.
It was like Christmas morning for big boys with power toys.
Coming in from the heat and long days of cutting up huge trees, they happily ate big meals and slept like fat puppies until daylight let them start over.
A happy man is a beautiful thing.
Della Neely
Baton Rouge
Electrifying words
Dear Smiley: In the mid-1980s, I had occasion to visit the offices of the Rural Electrification Administration in our nation’s capital.
While in a waiting room there, I spotted on a coffee table a large book entitled “The Next Greatest Thing.”
Intrigued by the title, I picked it up and began to leaf through it.
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