tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post5560017856398681622..comments2024-02-29T02:16:45.679-08:00Comments on Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche: EccentricsJohn V. Fleminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17136533410768061217noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-91964524856628594092012-04-02T20:58:20.196-07:002012-04-02T20:58:20.196-07:00You're making all of us wax nostalgic!You're making all of us wax nostalgic!P.B. Lecronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07804083711874529527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-33050501641816349142012-03-29T12:09:20.063-07:002012-03-29T12:09:20.063-07:00Thanks for this delightful reading break during my...Thanks for this delightful reading break during my "feeling sorry for me" day and for a new Scrabble word with which I can dump 2-ps, a c, and an extra u to boot. (My apologies, Aunt Mildred)<br /><br />It is a strange concept that the traits of those two relatives of yours were often such an embarrassment to me during my teens and then such a joy and comfort in later life. <br /><br />Millie (directed here by my sis Betty)millie-louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919099362743488658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-50046258081754059642012-03-29T04:57:24.602-07:002012-03-29T04:57:24.602-07:00Thanks, John. Thanks for also providing joy while ...Thanks, John. Thanks for also providing joy while they were still here. The "luxury" of two computers was appreciated not only for the practical aspect of not waiting for the other to get off the computer, but for the joy it brought them to sense the compassion of a citified country boy. Thanks for what you included - and also thanks for details excluded. Thanks for transitioning to Egerton.BettyJJJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025421020795674200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907071700721966011.post-43998960896068342322012-03-28T13:02:13.733-07:002012-03-28T13:02:13.733-07:00While I agree that the homogenization of America h...While I agree that the homogenization of America has led to a demise of the eccentric, there are still places where they can be found. Take my own town of Hancock, Massachusetts where they are thick on the ground notwithstanding a population far below a thousand. Two of them, Pete and Clayton, in their late 50s or early 60s, live right next door in the house they grew up in.<br /> One summer evening while we were having dinner, Pete appeared at the door. “Sorry to bother you during supper.”<br /> “No, no,” I said. “Come in. Will you have a beer or a glass of something?”<br /> “No, thanks. Can’t stay. I just wanted to let you know that Clayton and me plan to shoot some coyotes tonight around dusk and we didn’t want to scare you with the gunfire.”<br /> “Well, thanks for letting us know. Where do expect to see these coyotes?”<br /> “Right down there at the end of the field across he road. They’ll come out just before dark and that’s where we’ll shoot ‘em.”<br /> “So, you and Clayton will hide down there in the trees and wait for them?” I asked.<br /> “No, we just sit on the porch and shoot ‘em from there.” <br /> Seeing my eyes bug out in astonishment, our road being a moderately busy state highway, he quickly added by way of assuaging my concerns “We watch for cars.”<br /> Now, that’s an eccentric.Steve Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14348211003750424579noreply@blogger.com