HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY

Well here it is almost the 4th of July once again. We are invited to several functions, all of them revolve around the pot luck model of entertaining. You know, hosts provide meat and drinks, everyone else brings stuff. Isn't it funny how it usually works out that there are so many different salads and deserts? Many of these dishes are made with mayo, or some other bacteria containing ingredient. All the experts say to keep all that stuff made with cream sauces and the like on ice, and for heavens sake don't keep it out on a picnic table for longer than a few minutes, or you will most likely die, or worse yet get food poisoning. Now I know for sure how detrimental food poisoning can be to a persons body, you are in a suspended state of misery, and time does indeed stand still. Your stomach hurts you are going from both ends, (forgive the graphic description, I didn't know how to say it more delicately), you know for sure that if this doesn't quit soon you will dehydrate and just die. In fact just before you get to feeling better you start to think about what flowers you would like at your funeral. You hope the family doesn't put you in that horrible dress you bought on sale last month, it was not a good purchase, but it was cheap and you can't take it back. You think if only you had a pen in the bathroom you could scribble your last request not to bury you in that dress and that you want roses instead of lillies on the toilet paper, but that won't work you are just about out of toilet paper and you might need it. Well you are just going to have to take your chances on the the funeral arrangements. Somewhere in your tortured mind you make note that should you recover from this by some miracle, you will most definitely write down your wishes and put it someplace safe so the family can find it when the time comes. Well folks I took this a whole other way than I had intended. I was going to talk about our independence and how we have all these freedoms. Heck we even have the freedom to go to potlucks eat warm pasta salad, and get food poisoning. Ahhh what a wonderful country we live in. Well hope you all make it through this holiday in good health. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY