From One Turkey to Another (standard:humor, 901 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Nov 24 2019	Views/Reads: 1351/1020	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I have discovered there is a time to speak and then there is a time to wallow in silence.

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Walking into the kitchen, the oven door was open, I walked over to my
wife acting like I was going to pick her up and put her in the oven. 

It was all I could do to keep from laughing at this point. 

As I got near, I could hear her say, “Touch me and the wrong turkey's
going into the oven.” 

For a while, I could not stop laughing and finally, she started
laughing. 

I was able to stop long enough to put the "real turkey" in the oven. 

She said something weird, “I'm not going to thank you because you've
already gotten enough thanks.” 

I left the kitchen and headed for my chair and I heard her softly say,
“I better not read this in your column next week.” 

Pretending that I did not hear comes rather naturally to me. As I
evaluated that last statement, I concluded that she did not say I could 
not write about it in my column. She just said that she better not read 
it in my column. So, I think I'm on good ground. 

So, from one turkey to another, Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful
for the good things. It is a time to laugh at situations that any other 
time of the year would not be laughable. 

Sitting at the Thanksgiving dinner table with all the family and friends
around us I was smiling. Then I looked at the Gracious Mistress of the 
Parsonage. She looked back with “one of those stares” shook her head 
and mouthed “no.” 

This turkey knows when not to gobble. 

Peter understood this when he wrote, “For he that will love life, and
see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that 
they speak no guile” (1 Peter 3:10). 

I have discovered there is a time to speak and then there is a time to
wallow in silence.


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