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Saturday, February 23, 2019

This Week

Cornbread & Lawnmowers It's hard to eat cornbread and drive at the same time. I love cornbread for breakfast. One day I was driving to work with my cornbread and coffee. I was a little sleepy …. I looked down and I had cornbread crumbs all over my lap, so I started breathing in every time I took a bite so that I sucked in all of the crumbs. I breathed in too many and started choking. I looked down trying to brush off the crumbs, breathing in, looking down, choking, running r... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 23, 2019

Saturday, February 16, 2019

This Week

Big Bird I was at the Make-A-Wish office a few years ago fixing one of their computers and they asked me if I could find a home for Big Bird. They had used BB to grant a wish, but he/she (whatever Big Bird is) was a little scratched up and they couldn't use him again. So I said sure, I'll find him a  home. Well, it turns out that Big Bird is really BIG, life sized, as big as me. So I put him in the passenger seat, put his seat belt on and drove off looking to see if anybody not... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 16, 2019

Saturday, February 9, 2019

This Week

"In the weeds" Valentine's Day, it can be lots of fun or lots of stress, especially if you forget. I hated Valentine's Day growing up because we always had to get those little valentines for every kid in the class. Teachers thought it was cute, but giving a valentine to some kid that wanted to fight every day at recess didn't seem right to me. Then there was always some girl that thought you were in love with her, maybe my mom was in love with her, she wrote all the v... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 9, 2019

Saturday, February 2, 2019

This Week

Truck Rocking Somebody was telling me about their mom, who lives up north somewhere, having a snow drift at the bottom of her driveway, made by the snow plow. She started backing down, thinking she could jump it or something and ended up with her car parked on top of it and the back wheels up in the air. That reminded of something stupid that I did once. I was working at a Young Life camp in Colorado for a month as a work crew boss. The camp is pretty high up on a mountain. After dinner on... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, February 2, 2019