Limerick
Valuable Advice About Free Advice
I learned a lot about life working in my dad’s junkyard. It was a place that always had unusual and interesting characters hanging around (like myself). Some of these characters were junkyard philosophers and some of them gave me some profundity that I think about a lot. One piece of junkyard philosophy came from a street hustler who did some time for armed robbery. He was a very observant fellow who got his education at the school of hard knocks. He offered this about things being “free.” He would say, “ ‘FREE’?? There ain’t nothing ‘free,’” meaning that there was always a price or catch. And in the case of “free advice” the price is the potential consequences from listening to advice from people that do not have a personal interest in solving your problem. When things go South for you from listening to them, they are going to quote Brother Bluto in Animal House – “You fucked up. You trusted us.”
By Joel Kravitz The Limerick Guyabout a year ago in Poets
A Convert Me? No, I’ll Convert You!
This meme brought back some memories for me. A long time ago in a galaxy far away, I attended a college in the Bible Belt. We would, on occasion, be visited by fundamentalist Christian missionaries. My Christian roommates assigned me, their Jewish roommate, the task of sending them away. I would answer the door wearing a Star of David necklace, a yarmulka and boxer shorts with my kitchen shears in my hand. I would educate them about the Jewish ritual of a bris and offer to show them that I was circumcised. Then I’d show them the kitchen shears and offer to convert them to Judaism on the spot They’d leave and not come back.
By Joel Kravitz The Limerick Guyabout a year ago in Poets
