Our kind know it all… 11/22

China had Buddha, we, the town of Hazelhurst, have the Winger, that’s Gene Winger. He’s been a fixture in our town for years. As a lad I use to work for his father and I know for a fact where Gene proper perceptive comes from.
It’s in the Gene’s…

One day I was trying to get a concrete casting from it’s form and it would budge. Gene comes up to me and says, "Don’t force it use a bigger hammer." and he hands me a sludge hammer.

For me from that day forward Gene’s insight has always been on the money. It was a pleasure coming to work each da soaking in his down home wisdom. Even in the evening we were blessed with his sharp eye as he drove the towboat for our water ski shows.

Now years later we are treated to wisdom at a place called Whitman’s in greater downtown Hazelhurst. Not only gems come from him but he has all the towns’ news wanted and unwanted. He’s got the latest scoop on everything and everybody. Gene is our town’s newspaper, radio station and evening TV newscast without commercials.

If you every stop at Whitman’s don’t sit on his stool, as you enter it’s the last on the left and it’s reserved for a very special person. I have to go there regularly for if I don’t they’ll talk about me behind my back, yet I know Gene will straighten the local lagerts. By the bye have a turkey drumstick on me tomorrow!

As for me? I am off tomorrow and come to think of it Friday and the weekend,
I may not even post till Monday,
so suffer my people while the battery is recharged.