Momma says even more demoralizing than the Annual Christmas Brag Sheet Card, depicting the birth of Sweet Baby Jesus, born long ago in a Manger, is that Social Media Message that pops up, unsolicited, from someone you knew, ‘in the day’ (as Baby Boomers say), left behind because well, she had a different incomprehensible agenda.
Let’s call her Miss High School Sweetheart, not interested in attaining an education….no, she had a nesting instinct…kind of old-fashioned for the Flower Power Children of the ‘60’s but to each his own. Now Momma, she was all about leaving (what she considered) her Godforsaken, claustrophobic, bucolic town behind, to meet and conquer the world. (LOL)
Kudos to Miss High School Sweetheart for having Plan–Check–Do Act before businesses even threw three day conferences to bring it to the masses. Her strategy must have trickled down from her father who had a prestigious executive position. Although more Girl-Next-Door than a Beauty Queen, Miss High School Sweetheart had the advantage of being from Snob Hill, which made some guys look twice (well, at least one Good Ole Country Boy).
Like bees to the honey, Miss High School Sweetheart trapped her unsuspecting-hockey-playing-never-saw-it-coming Good Ole Country Boy. They walked down the school halls hand-in-hand. They stole kisses when teachers weren’t looking. Apparently they also did much more when no one was looking because in no time they came along pushing a baby carriage….no more talk of higher education. Upon graduation Good Ole Country Boy got a job at the local mill while Miss High School Sweetheart became what is known today as a Stay-At-Home-Mom…sacrifices all around or was Plan–Check–Do Act a success?
So… what would Miss High School Sweetheart, want with Momma, at this stage, you wonder…well, to Brag, of course….that Baby in the Carriage had made it in the Big League, (National Hockey League) which is more precious in small town Canada than all the green tea in China, all the Crown Jewels…you get it….it is BIG…oh, and the Baby in the Carriage was in University on a scholarship because of his hockey prowess.
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Oh…and one more thing…did Momma have any contact with Ms. Doctor-in-Chief, (born with a stethoscope around her baby neck), also in the same grade as Momma and Miss High School Sweetheart ….also from Snob Hill. Miss High School Sweetheart was desperate to let Ms. Doctor-in-Chief know the Glad Tidings which was all rather strange to Momma… Ms. Doctor-in-Chief, was so dedicated to her future success that she would never hang out with fluff-on-the-road-to-nowhere.
Momma shot off a quick reply to Miss High School Sweetheart and to date has not heard from her again….too bad…so sad…and, oh Congratulations cause…
My boy never made it to the Big League / My boy never turned some heads / My boy never made it to the Big League / My boy never knocked some heads…in the Big League (Paraphrase Tom Cochrane).
