Gooberless

I sat in the movies last night. Unfulfilled.

I was Gooberless.

My normal ritual is to go to the movies and purchase a pack of
Goobers (well two packs if you must know) and enjoy them while
I watch the movie. I often have a problem with my wife sticking
her hand out for some. I'm not a stingy man but those are MY
Goobers. Generosity has its limits.

I had to go to a different theater to see the movie and guess
what? They didn't sell Goobers. No other candy substitutes for
Goobers, so either it's Goobers or nothing.

I sat there and realized three MountainWings Moments.

1. I was a grown (supposedly mature) man sitting there
unfulfilled because of the lack of candy. A thing that I knew
beyond question was not healthy.

2. Who you hang around with influences you greatly. My wife
is now in love with Goobers and seriously threatens my supply.

3. Perhaps many of the things that we want and don't have it's
a doggone good thing that we don't have them.

Often, we are better off with nothing than something that's not
good for us.

Much better off.


~A MountainWings Original~

10 Things You Probably Didn't Know

We often seek the great mysteries of life but often the most
insignificant bits of knowledge can lighten the spirit
instead of giving us more to think about.

10 Things I'll Bet You Didn't Know. . .

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it
starves to death.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one
olive from each salad served in first-class.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until
the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Cat's urine glows under a black light.

China has more English speakers than the United States.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't
wear pants.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a
calorie.

If you were counting, that's 12 things but maybe you knew two
of them.

Laugh for the day:

A bus load of politicians were driving down a country road
when all of a sudden the bus ran off the road and crashed
into a tree in an old farmer's field. The old farmer after
seeing what happened went over to investigate. He then
proceeded to dig a hole and bury the politicians.

A few days later, the local sheriff came out, saw the crashed
bus, and then asked the old farmer, "Were they ALL dead?"

The old farmer replied, "Well, some of them said they
weren't, but you know how them politicians lie."