I love living in Resaca. There's never a shortage of entertainment around here. One day Scout and I was at home when a car with two men pulled up in the driveway. Scout went outside to see what they wanted. I could see them outside. In a minute the car was still there but the men were gone. I looked outside the windows trying to see where they had gone. I saw the young man standing in front of our barn and couldn't see the old man or Scout so I went out there to see what was going on.
When I went out there I thought they might be some religious people because the young man looked very clean cut and the old man had Scout cornered at the back of the barn near Colt's truck waving his arms around and kind of poking Scout in the chest. I sure didn't recognize them.
The young man introduced himself and said that the old man was a neighbor that he had been riding around for the past couple of days. He said the old man was on a toot and his family had kicked him out. He had been taking him places when the old man asked him to. The old man asked him to bring him to our house because he wanted to visit Don. It turns out that the old fellow used to work with Don. Don had talked about fixing Colt's truck and the old man had come to see it.
The old man said he thought Don was a great guy and he really had enjoyed working with him. He just kept going on and on and it was obvious he was wasted. He kind of staggered around and looked unsteady. He bent down and cracked his head on Scout's truck and then when that happened he decided to get on one knee and his knee landed in cat crap. I think he had meant to get on one knee and apologize for acting a fool in front of me. Instead he proved himself to be a bigger dummy.
Scout and I started walking them towards the front yard and out the main gate. The old man kept talking about how he hoped he hadn't made me mad and he sure wasn't trying to cause any trouble. I asked the young man if he had been drinking, too, and he said he hadn't. He just felt sorry for the old fellow. The old man staggered and fell back again before he left. I was worried to death he was going to crack his old head. If he had, he would have fallen under the Edgewood insurance policy. That's where we throw you over the fence off of our property and leave you at the edge of the woods and let the coyotes take care of you. That's what I used to threaten the kids with if they ever got hurt while playing. That's why my kids weren't complainers.
They finally left before Don got home from work. Scout said he was glad Don hadn't come home early or the old man wouldn't have ever left. I figure the old man deserved to fall in cat crap if he's stupid enough to go around visiting people when he's so drunk. Don't you?
I'm just glad that Scout was here when those guys showed up. I wouldn't have been as accommodating.
