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HELLO, I'M HOME 591

7/25/2019

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                                                     HELLO, I'M HOME 591

                               Did you read where President Carter
                               recently attended the National Prayer
                               Breakfast, and all but one person,
                               Miss Lillian, his mother, rose to their
                               feet as he entered the banquet hall?

                               We can certainly sympathize with
                               Mr. Carter in this situation, for we
                               often encounter similar circumstances.
                               Here's how it goes at the end of our
                               workday...

                               "Hello, everybody, I'm home."
                               (Silence)
                               "Hey, anybody home?" 
                               (More silence...The passages of the
                               first century catacombs were never
                               quieter than the halls of my home.)

                               I enter the living room...all eyes are
                               glued to the TV. Then it hits me...
                               All the kids are stone deaf when a
                               good television receiver is placed
                               within six inches of their eyeballs
                               and the volume is turned up extra
                               loud.

                               Then I go into the kitchen...
                               "Honey, I'm home."
                               "Shhhh! I'll be with you in minute."
                               Can't you see I'm on the phone?"

                               "You wouldn't treat me this way,
                               If I were the President of the United 
                               States."

                               "O really...Come on now, be serious."
                        
                               "Now, I ask you, Jimmy, whatever happened
                               to the good old days...There's just no respect
                               any more."

                               (Written on February 22, 1979) 

                               

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