"Take a cold tater and wait."
~E.M. Bartlett, 1883 - 1941
My dad used to cite this every
time my little bro and I would
claim hunger.
I'm so grateful my dad survived
WWII. And, I know there was
a lot of mental anguish that went
along with this entire episode in
our history.
Still, the one liners, quotations,
the old songs, always erupted
from his lips. Can't help but
wonder if somehow they helped
him in his own time of sorrow.
Stories abound . . . waiting for
supper, waiting for guests to
arrive, awaiting Thanksgiving
dinner . . . and supposedly this
sparked an idea for Bartlett and
his song.
In our own lives today, we all
do plenty of waiting . . . payday
to arrive, the children to visit,
get the bills paid and the grocery
shopping done, a dream holiday,
our ships to come in.
Seems I've eaten plenty of cold
taters and am ever waiting for
something. We could learn some-
thing from our kids of today.
They don't wait for anything. In
fact, they refuse to . . . they make
things happen.
Just who I want to be when I grow
up; make no mistake!
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