This morning, pre coffee, I whined about this being a long week. (Because I’m a whiny weenie some days, OK?!)
I was quickly given my reality check, and I now present my Tuesday list of people who are just cooler than words:
These folks made me happy:
#3 Willie The Checkers Dude. Willie is out in the Checkers parking lot with the leaf blower every darn morning. He pauses, gives me a big smile and hollers “Good Morning” to me. Every morning for four years. The act of hollering “Good Morning” back to him makes my morning. Seriously.
#2 The Red-Skirt Lady — Last night, in Zumba, (a sort of aerobics class) this little Latina lady wasn’t wearing workout pants, she wore a long, flowey red skirt. And when we really started to shimmy and shake, she started to dance, using her skirt as an extension. She didn’t give two craps about what we thought of her. She enjoyed her moment.
Hell. Yeah.
Coolest chick in West Volusia last night was the uninhibited Red Skirt Zumba Lady.
She made me rethink my attitude today.
#1 My daughter — Because when the radio died on my 89 GMC pickup (with 289,000 miles, thank you! My truck will whup your butt. It’s a clunker, but it’s MY clunker) my daughter and I belted out a rousing rendition of “There was a hole, in the middle of the ground, the prettiest hole, that you ever did see…” complete with chicken-dance motions.
You can’t be in a bad mood after hollering “Well the nest’s on the branch and the branch’s on the tree and the tree’s on the root and the root’s on the ground and the green grass grows all around and a around and the green grass grows all aarrrouuuunnndd.”
Those are the coolest people in my town at this moment.
Happy Tuesday! Wear your red skirt on the inside, and flaunt it on the outside.
