Sliding Time

It does go forward and backwards and depending on where you are standing when time is rushing by is how you are judged. Some people are way ahead of their times and some never catch up to it. I had an Aunt Delma, who was married to my uncle William Howard Taft Adkins. In those days, it was very, very popular to name one of your children after some president or the other. Why my Big Mom named her eldest son after a president that nobody except "Jeopardy" contestants ever heard of beats me, but she did. Aunt Delma, I have to say, was ahead of the time curve and its public opinion. She believed children should only wear diapers once. So she threw them away after one wearing. There was a lot of throwing going on because Delma and Taft had twelve children. Jackie, Joyce and the other ten. Understand this was before disposable diapers, so this particular bunch of the Adkins clan just scandalized our name. Then comes John Travolta, who only wears his white tee-shirts once. Then the crazy guy does something with them. Who knows what? But because he's got so much money, it's not a scandal when he tosses them to the wind after one wear. Money could be the key here to whether this is a ridiculous practice or not. I got one that involves money and it's still ridiculous. A friend of mine told me recently of two young women who spent a couple of thousand dollars on clothes each month at just one store where she also shopped. The 'sales associate' confessed to her that one of those young women was her daughter. A few months passed by before she also confessed they spent so much money because they just threw their clothes in the garage after one wear and went and bought some more. Ok, I heard you, how does the daughter of a clerk roll that hard? Seems the young lady was using the equity in her house as a clothing budget. Yes, she lost the house, but there was a lot of stuff in the garage that made somebody some money. I swear this is a true story, ridiculous as it reads.