Culture Shock
Oh my goodness and lah-dee-dah. How so very hoity-toity. It sure is aggravating when people say things like that. And besides, assumptions are more often wrong than right.
I made an assumption about a club in TV. May I tell you about it........
While we were in TV on a recent visit, I was reading the Recreation News or whatever that paper is called that comes out once a week and lists the schedules for club meetings. As I glanced through the names of the clubs listed, I saw games and music and art and books and sports and dancing and singing, all kinds of stuff. Something for everybody.
But the club name that really caught my attention and made an impression was “The Gray Owls.” When I saw the name of the club, I got an instant picture in my mind of a Gray Owls meeting.......
In the picture, there were several sophisticated looking men who had gray hair. They were wearing tweed jackets with patches on the elbows. -- Yeah, I know. We were in Florida so those tweed jackets would have been pretty hot I guess. But the picture was in my mind and I don’t think there is a thermometer in there. -- Anyway, they were wearing the jackets with Bermuda shorts, open-collared shirts, and loafers with no socks. Some of the Gray Owls were smoking pipes. And some were wearing horn-rimmed glasses.
In the picture in my mind, these guys had the wardrobe down. They were the Gray Owls after all. All that wisdom at one meeting. Just imagine.
I swear to you. I do not make this stuff up. I get pictures.
I actually thought this was a club for intellectual types, perhaps retired professors or philosophers (Do philosophers ever retire?) I thought that the Gray Owls had meetings to discuss things like great books or theories or history or art or..... ohhhhh, who knows??? But that’s the picture I got by looking at just the name of their club.
Then I read the part that tells what the Gray Owls really do.
These guys meet someplace and carpool to a Hooters somewhere. But hey, who’s to say that they are not discussing great ideas while they are there.
Boomer the Assumer
Last edited by Boomer; 06-21-2010 at 08:36 AM.
Reason: had to fix a couple of things - wrote this after midnight last night - I should not type after midnight
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