Happy Ten Fourth!!!

I wasn't sure so I walked all the way back into the kitchen to check the calendar and yep, I was right. Today is National Good Buddy Day....you know..."ten four good buddy"...hello? Is anyone out there?? I guess you had to be alive and conscious in the mid-seventies when CB radios enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame. Everyone had a CB antenna wagging in the air off their rear bumper. Some really creepy people had three or four antennas waving around as they drove the highways. My brother Glenn had a CB and it did make sense for him to have one. He was in the Air Force and constantly on the road. What didn't make sense was for him to create the handle "Greenie Weenie" for himself in honor of his brand new, mint green, Chevrolet Vega. He could never get anyone to respond to him on the airwaves.

Before long cell phones came along and hammered the final nail into the CB radio coffin. Cell phones back then were huge. Instead of an antenna hanging off the bumper of your car, you could now have an antenna sticking off this huge boxlike thing hanging off your shoulder. Cell phones have evolved from big and unreliable to tiny and unreliable. Everyone has a cell phone. It's mandatory...and just like the CB days, I'm the rebel. People look at me like I'm an alien when I tell them I don't own a cell phone and don't see that changing in this lifetime. This is a silly assumption because no bonafide alien would ever leave home without a cell phone hanging off his belt.

I sit in church on Sundays and if I'm not real careful my mind starts to wander. Several times I've noticed all the cell phones attached to the sides of guys passing communion. Everyone has a cell phone....EVERYONE!! It reminds me of watching cowboy shows when I was a kid and wondering why everyone was wearing a gun right in the middle of town. Of course the ladies weren't wearing guns. They carried them in their purses.

Y'all have a good day. Ten-four good buddies.