(Note to my mom: Momma, I want to let you know that I am okay. I’m not sick and I am not having any serious health problems, so don’t worry about me. When you read this story I know you are going to wonder what is wrong with me. The answer is that everything you have preached to me all your life is coming true. You always told me… “just wait.” “Just wait” meant that as we get older, the things we did not understand would become clearer. Well, “just wait” is catching up with me and I am catching on. I wanted to put your mind at ease before you read this article. Now, I know your card playing friends [you know who you are…that group of ladies who run all over town playing a card game wherever you can at all hours of the day and then ya’ll visit the local restaurants] are going to call you and try to diagnose my problems I am about to share. My blood pressure is just fine. My kidneys and colon are in proper working order. I am not having heart problems and my thyroid is working just fine. I’m sleeping well and I have even started walking on the treadmill. My brain function is still sharp and I am not developing any new aches or pains other than my lower back that you already know about. All in all, “just wait” is simply catching up with me and I am becoming wiser, so rest easy, I’m just fine health wise. Your eldest son.)

Okay, now, on to the story. Over the past couple of months I have had several issues that have caused great laughter here in our office. I have already shared with you the story about going to my car during the first freeze of the year and almost breaking the door handles on my car when I thought the door was frozen shut. It was actually locked, but I went to great extremes to try to un-stick the door before I realized it was actually locked.

About a month ago I got out of my car at the office and I felt a strange breeze around my midsection. Each step I took I got cooler and cooler. I suddenly realized and I had “left the barn door open” and I quickly closed it. A week later I did the same thing while walking across the Tractor Supply place in Brenham!

Well, more and more things have happened since then. About two weeks ago I was engrossed in reading some documents I had in my hand as I was walking into my office from the copier. Suddenly, bam! I ran smack dab into the door facing completely missing the already open door. I banged the top of my head so hard on the door jamb that the wall rattled the building. Everybody looked up wondering what happened when they saw me stagger backwards slightly stunned. As soon as I realized I was really okay, I began to laugh and everybody laughed with me.

Lo and behold, yesterday as I grabbed some important documents from the copier again I wanted to make a quick study of them. I began reading the paperwork as I headed toward someone’s office when suddenly “whack,” I ran right into a closed glass door! This time we all got a better laugh than the first time. “Just wait” is really closing in on me.

Now, this morning, I was simply sitting here at my desk and I had one fingernail that was bugging me so I took my scissors and proceeded to cut it off. Clip, clip and the fingernail flew into the air and fell straight into my shirt pocket! I was sitting here trying to dig the nasty think out of my shirt pocket when our staff member named Suzie stuck her head in the door to hand me some papers. Here I was with my fingers stuck down in my shirt pocket and my shirt all contorted sideways as I tried to turn the pocket inside out to find the nail. She looked at me with wonderment as we both shared another good laugh!

I can already tell that “just wait” is going to be fun. I enjoy laughing at myself and I feel like the “just wait years” are going to be very eventful. I just hope they don’t bang and bruise me up too much. Right now my wife can take care of me, but she is just a few months behind me in age so I figure “just wait” will start showing up in her life too real soon.

Clifford

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