June 21 2008
There’s bad news this week gang. As most of you have probably noticed by now, the price of gasoline is going through the roof. It is getting to the point where people are radically changing their lifestyles in order to cope with the growing expense.
Some are driving less, using bicycles and motorcycles, and using public transportation. Still others are even starting to learn how to walk again.
Which isn’t as easy as it sounds. While walking has, of course, cut down on DWI’s, some of the boys are having a hard time learning to walk while intoxicated.
It turns out that walking only a few blocks home can get a man hopelessly lost, his shoes sucked off in patches of mud, being rudely introduced to dogs so vicious as to be probably illegal, and discovering that many houses in town look almost exactly like his.
Walking can indeed be a most harrowing experience to the unaccustomed.
Be that as it may, it was on just such an adventure that one of our members, Floyd Staggers; found himself this past Wednesday night.
Now Floyd had heard that there was a full moon that night, and was walking down a street in a strange neighborhood, soaking wet because he had apparently encountered a body of water in his travels, and limping slightly because for some reason one of his shoes was missing.
He suddenly stopped, reached down and rubbed the Chihuahua bites on his ankles, and realized how absurd the whole thing was.
Laughing to himself, he looked up in the air and saw the silver globe of the moon hanging above him.
With a smile on his face, he threw back his shoulders and started howling like a wolf...
When the policeman brought him home, Floyd’s wife gasped in horror standing at the front door.
"My God!" she said, "what happened to him?"
"I don’t know." Said the officer, "But when I found him howling like a wolf under a street lamp, I figured he could use a little help."
Yes indeed, there’s more to walking than meets the eye.

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary