The "squirrel factor"

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Added: Thu. Jul 17, 2008 9:38am
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The names and other identifying markers have been changed to protect the innocent…

 

I had one of those fruitcake “eureka” moments about relationships not long ago, and I’m still laughing about it.  We’d taken the Harley to a music festival in a lakefront city in southern Wisconsin.  As we walked around hand in hand, I recognized a “person of stature” I’d been acquainted with years before.  Introductions were made and pleasantries and handshakes were all around.  The sun was shining, the streets were clean, the music was good, and this Master of the Universe was looking sleek and happy and content in his own neighborhood.  He rules his white collar world with authority.  And he’s a VERY nice person to boot!  My wonderful guy, on the other hand, has callused hands and is equally at home using a chainsaw or planting some coneflowers.  And neither of us will ever make a society page.

 

We said our good-byes a few minutes later and went to listen to some more music and people watch.  And I suddenly had a mental image that cracked me up.  That if both these guys were dropped into the middle of the deep woods with a Leatherman tool apiece, Mr. Top-of-the-Urban-Food-Chain would be eaten by squirrels in five minutes.  And the one holding my hand would be building a shelter, hanging some shelves, making a fire and then possibly starting a garden.  And that image makes me smile all the time!

 

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