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‘Tis
The Season
You know the one. The one where you’re supposed to be jolly,
regardless of how you really feel. Jolly when your shoulder hurts,
jolly when your head hurts, jolly when your feet hurt and you haven’t
even gotten to the Mall yet. And you didn’t want to go to the
Mall in the first place. Hell, you really wanted to go to Florida.
Maybe visit Jerry and Grace. Or Arizona, to see if they really know
who John Lehman is. The Hawaiian Islands sound really nice, too. Volcano’s
are a great source of geothermal heat, you know. Think of it! Free
heat! Hagerty could plumb a few hundred feet of copper tubing into
that lava, and we’d be all set for the winter if we could tap
into something like that here. But no, all that thermal energy is wasted
on some place that was already warm to start with. Just our luck. Oh
sure, you can go ahead and dig a hole in Michigan, after you get through
the layer of perma-frost, and you can pound all the copper pipe you
can afford into that hole, but what are you going to get for all your
effort? Doesn’t take an MIT science guy to answer that question.
You’re gonna’ get cold water. How’s that gonna’ help
your cold feet? And then you’re still gonna’ have to go
the Mall with those cold feet, because your wife said you needed to
go Christmas shopping. But now you don’t have any money because
you gave it all to Hagerty to buy copper pipe. And you thought you
ordered so many feet of pipe, but somehow it didn’t seem like
you got as much as you ordered, and then you noticed the empty Stroh’s
cartons in the back of Hagerty’s truck. And then all of Hagerty’s
buddies show up and the whole group is probably gonna’ wander
off to the Showgrounds to “check things out”. And there
you stand with your cold feet and empty wallet, and you still haven’t
been to the Mall. And those guys all looked jolly, too, didn’t
they? Then you think maybe you could send Hoss, and Jeffy, and Neumeyer
to do your shopping for you, but there just seems to be too many ways
for that to go wrong. So you finally decide that the only thing that
could possibly cheer you up would be to see Ellen Benjamin, Grub, Al
Shuster, and Fred Grey, all sitting on Santa’s lap with lists
in their hands, hope in their hearts, and even after all those collective
years, the belief in their minds that, “Yes Virginia, there is
a Santa Claus” ! Travel wherever you might, the only place you’re
gonna’ see that is at the annual MMOGTA Christmas Party !
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