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_________________________________________ {Straight From the Heart} *The Shower* 12/1/00 If you enjoy this free daily email service, I encourage you to spread the word to family and friends, that we may bring inspiration into the lives of many! I appreciate any feedback or constructive criticism, so feel free to write me (Michael T. Powers) and let me know what you think! Just joined us and want to see all the past stories we've run? Visit our inspirational website at: I thought it was time to stop being so serious and start doing some laughing, and I laughed out loud when I read Al Batt's story below. Maybe it's just because I am a guy, but I think you will laugh too. May everyone have a great weekend and we'll "see" in your email box late Sunday night! THE SHOWER By Al Batt A famous line from a great book reads, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Now I know what the author meant. I am taking a shower--the best way I have found for me to start a day. Some people like an icy cold shower in the morning-one that will wake them up quickly. Not me. Some people like a very hot shower--one that eases the sleep out of the body and limbers up those sleep stiffened muscles. Not me. I like showers just the way Goldilocks liked her porridge-just right. Not too cold and not too hot. Just right. While I am in a shower, I have no doubt that the day is going to be a great one. I stride the earth like a colossus. The best ideas come to me when I am in the shower. I should write them down, but the paper always gets too wet and soggy. I depend on my memory to preserve them. I sing in the shower. Normally a pathetic singer, I am a regular canary when I'm in the shower. Today I am pretending to be Elvis Presley singing "It's Now Or Never" in front of thousands of adoring fans. The louder I sing, the more they love me. I rock. I have a neighbor who is fond of saying, "When things get too good, look out." He is Lutheran, he has to say things like that. This is a morning meant for people who think like he does. Now, normally I enjoy surprises, but what I hear is not the kind of surprise I like. The sound I hear is the sound of the toilet flushing in the upstairs bathroom. Suddenly, I find myself in the midst of a human predicament. My wife, who I love very much, has for some unknown reason decided to flush the toilet in our farm home while I am taking a shower. A sane person does not flush a toilet in our home while someone is taking a shower. Unless that someone fancies herself a music critic. The water coming from the shower and hitting my body changes immediately upon the sound of the flushing from being just right to being scalding hot. The dulcet tones of my song turn from a rich warble to an agonizing scream. I want to be clean, not char-broiled. I have become well done, not far from being Joan of Arced. I am thinking thoughts that no man should think about his wife. I finish my shower, whimpering having replaced my singing. I am definitely wide-awake now, but all the fantastic ideas that I had come up with earlier-the ideas that would make the world a better place for all of us-- have been flushed from my mind. In the time it takes to jiggle a handle, I have gone from being the King loved by all to becoming a lobster on his last day in the restaurant. Oh, I will forgive my wife, but not right away. After all, it is her turn to use the shower. Al Batt Send Al an email and let him know what you thought of his story! ©Al Batt1998 From: isaiah@citlink.net (Karen)
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