MY TONGUE IS STUCK ON THAT POLE AGAIN !

Winter has its bitter cold windy grip on most of the United States, my area included.
I used to like the cold and actually still prefer the cooler weather rather than sweating bullets in the dog days of summer. i REMEMBER ONE DAY i WAS COLD OUTSIDE WITHOUT A COAT. i NEVER WORE COATS AND JACKETS PREFERRING TO JUST WEAR A FEW LAYERS OF SHIRTS WITH MAYBE A HOODY ON LASTLY. (THERE GOES THAT CAPS LOCK KEY AGAIN!)

This year we'll have a white Christmas for sure. Which somehow gives me a wintry warm kind of feeling and remembering white Christmas's of years past. One such memory is the time I got my wet tongue stuck on a metal pole in the cold of the dead of winter. It is widely known as "The Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle Principle".

If you put your tongue on a pump handle on a bitter cold winter day, the tongue will freeze to the handle and you will stand there, helpless, unable to cry out for help. Not that it would do much good. Most pump handles these days are in remote rural areas. So I did the next best thing and found a metal pole. We've all been warned against doing this and yet we all know that eventually we will do it usually as an inquisitive child.
Winter is a joyful season where people seem to be friendly even to strangers in the crowded stores. But somehow it seems all too strange. Why should a person that flips me the bird for not driving fast enough in the warm summer days, patiently wait for me to realize behind me in line that the traffic light has turned green and not blow the car horn in protest. Does it have something to do with which list we wish to be on this time of year? Santa's Good or Bad boy and girl lists?

I've always expected tragedy to strike around Christmas. Things just seem to be totally out of kilter this time of year,this balance of good and evil. Somewhat like flushing while sitting on the toilet in an air plane, I fear this world will be sucked into a black hole in space. So don't stick your tongue on a cold metal pole and please don't flush while sitting on an air plane toilet.


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