Those Used To Be the Days (standard:humor, 909 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jun 21 2020	Views/Reads: 1193/920	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
God has a wonderful change in store for those who put their faith and trust in him.

Being limited as to travel and outside activities can sometimes get
rather boring. You can be inactive only so long, and then you get in 
that car that drives you to crazy land. 

Finding something to do to keep me from being bored has become somewhat
of a challenge. 

However, the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage can always find
something to do, especially something for me. That is why every day I 
"act" as if I am busy. I think I ought to get some Emmy award for that 
because I am a rather good actor. I have had a lot of practice. 

Not only that, but my hearing is not very good. Therefore, when my wife
asked me something, I pretend that I am busy and cannot hear her. I 
think she has caught on to my acting skills here. There goes that Emmy. 


One evening the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I were sitting in
the living room together watching TV. At the same time, I was working 
on some sermon notes I was preparing for Sunday. I think that got most 
of my attention at the time. 

Eventually, I looked over to my wife, smiled and said, "I'm beginning to
understand politics much better and I think these politicians on TV are 
really making sense to me." Then I flashed her one of my smiles. 

She stared at me for a moment and then said, "You do know we're watching
The Three Stooges, don't you?" 

To get caught is one thing but this rather threw me for a loop. (Nyuk
Nyuk Nyuk). 

My wife keeps herself quite busy and I certainly cannot keep up with
her. She cannot sit down for very long and rest. 

This is where I come in as the husband. I sit down and rest for her so
she can go about and keep busy. I must say I am very good at resting 
for her. 

While she was rummaging through some stuff, she discovered a box of old
photographs of our family. I forgot we had such photographs. After all, 
we have cell phones today with photographs on them. Does this younger 
generation know what a photograph really is? Has any young person ever 
seen a camera? 

She brought several boxes out into the dining room and began opening
them up and spreading the photographs on the table. I do not know who 
the photographer was on most of these but they were not that good. 
However, you gotta take what you get. 

“Do you know who that person is?” My wife asked. 

I looked at it and I could not imagine who that person was in that
photograph. 

“No, it doesn't look familiar to me at all.” 

My wife just stared at me and said, “Take another look.” 

I could not figure out who that picture was and I could not imagine the
location of where that picture was taken. 

“That is a picture of you just before we got married. Now do you
remember?” 

There was a picture of a young man with hair and as skinny as a lamp
pole. I just could not see that that was a picture of me. Now, I am 
old, and my hair is starting to retire and, let's say, I'm not skinny. 

“Are you sure that's a picture of me?” 

“I should know because I'm the one that took the picture.” 

If that's what I looked like back then, what has happened to me? 



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