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No way would I ever be a win
ning poker player.
Not that I’ve ever wanted to be.
But winning card game players
must be able to wear a “poker”
face, never betraying their plea
sure or dismay with the hand dealt
them.
“You look like you’ve just done
something dumb,” chuckles the
fanner, as I hustle from the house
in the direction of the car.
Done something dumb? Who
me?
Well, not this time. For a
change. Actually, I’d just shipped
off a packet of written material
through the postal service, then
received in the incoming tAail
additional papers that belonged
with the packet but hadn’t arrived
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in time. Correcting the close miss
was easy in this case—just a quick
trip to a nearby post office. Appa
rently I wore a glaring look that he
translated to “what a dumb thing to
do."
Most of the “dumb” things I’ve
authored and must correct aren’t
that simple. Naturally, the family
is quick to help me not forget the
mote memorable “dumb” things
I’ve done. One kid even offered
me a notebook —a large one—to
keep track of ’em.
Top vote-getter on the “Official
Dumb Things Mom’s Done” list is
without a doubt the evening the
entire family wait along to a meet
ing at which 1 was to speak. We
planned to arrive in the distant
town early, to have ample time to
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sight-see before dusk, but couldn’t
find the meeting location. Turned
out the town with the similar name
where I was supposed to be
was 80 miles away.
Good fortune flew by in the
shape of an eighteen-wheeler with
a big CB antennae waving from the
cab. I pulled onto the flat, open
highway behind him and rode in
his high-speed wake most the way,
while he unknowingly rode “shot
gun” for me.
We eased into the meeting room
just as the dinner appetizer was
being saved, and the program
chairman teetering on the verge of
panic.
In a similar instance, closer to
home. I arrived to speak to a dinner
meeting one evening to locked,
darkened building. A month early.
The Farmer was conned into tak
ing me out to dinner, but grumbled
all evening because I’d made him
miss a favorite annual cattle sale.
Automobiles seem to inspire me
to new levels of “dumbness.”
One morning years ago, I
packed the then five-year-old and
the year-plus baby into the family
car. to back up the road and drop
off a couple of magazines to a
neighbor, before heading off in the
opposite direction.
By the time the kids were
situated, I remembered the maga
zines still in the house, hopped out
of the car and ran back in to grab
them. Five seconds later, the driv
eriess car was drifting toward the
Zip.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12, 1987-B5
low bank in the yard with me in hot
pursuit It halted, with a crash, at
the woodshed.
Nearly speechless and in tears, 1
retrieved die pair from the car,
with its unharmed front right fen
der surrounded by splintered sid
ing of the woodshed and clay
flowerpots reduced to shards.
These woe the days—remember?
—when baby seats were located in
the front seat After the baby had
yanked the gear selector out of
park, the five-year-old had
grabbed the steering wheel in a ter
rified effort to help in some way.
More recently, while loading
several boxes of equipment into
the car, I laid a packet of important
papers on the roof. Two miles
down the road* panic struck when I
glanced around the car’s interior
and missed the packet A hasty
Chicken Recipe Contest
GEORGETOWN. DE. A
favorite chicken recipe, the one
that always brings raves from fam
ily and guests, could make you a
winner in the 1988 Delmarva
Chicken Cooking Contest
The contest, held on an
alternate-year schedule, is open to
residents of 12 northeastern states
(Virginia to Maine) and the Dis
trict of Columbia. Two finalists
from each eligible state will be
chosen to receive an expense-paid
weekend at the cook-off finals set
for June 10-12, 1988 on Mary
land’s scenic Eastern Shore.
Recipes will be judged on appe
al, taste, appearance, and ease of
preparation. Broiler-fryer chicken,
whole or any combination of parts,
is the only required ingredient
Recipes should make four to eight
servings and total preparation time
must not exceed three hours.
Deadline for entering is
February 1, 1988.
The top winner will receive a
ten-day Hawaiian vacation for two
plus $l,OOO, a Frigidaire micro-
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backtrack along the busy highway
turned up no sign of the zippered,
plastic folder.
A day later a good Samaritan
fanner delivered the packet back to
the office from where it had origi
nated, saving my hide once again.
And, not long ago, I locked up
the car to leave it in a parking lot
for a couple of days, only to arrive
back and find that I’d left a win
dow open. Good thing the weather
had remained pleasant, or the ride
home might well have been a cold,
wet one.
"Haste makes waste” goes an
old cliche. Haste also makes the
“Official Dumb Things Mom’s
Done” list grow‘unceasingly.
Next time you’re hit with that
sinking-pit-in-the-stomach feeling
of having done something “dumb”
... well, welcome to the crowd.
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The contest is sponsored by
Delmarva Poultry Industry. Inc.,
the trade association representing
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Delmarva Peninsula. For further
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