This time around I decided to post on something that has absolutely, positively nothing to do with winter or Christmas or holidays in general. Sounds like an original idea doesn’t it? For this season at least. Anyway, if you’re sitting down, I want you to take a moment and stand up before you continue reading this……
Alright, now you can sit back down.
Thanks for humoring me. I just wanted to be able to tell you to sit down.
{For those of you that are
thoroughly confused right now,
don’t worry, that’s not abnormal.
In fact, I pretty nearly confused
myself there.}
Now brace yourselves. This post is going to be about…{drumroll please}…PICKLES. Surprised you didn’t I? I don’t know about you, but I love pickles. And I also love the Andy Griffith Show. What does the Andy Griffith Show have to do with pickles? Everything.
Allow me to explain myself. Usually our family will watch an episode of the Andy Griffith show over supper, {which would explain my love of it. You either love it, or starve. ;) Just kidding.} and the best Andy Griffith episode of all time would be the pickle story. That’s not a matter of opinion friends, it’s a fact. If you’ve never watched the Andy Griffith Show, the pickle story needs to be the first episode you watch. And if you’ve never even heard of the Andy Griffith Show up until this point, you should probably get your brain checked. :)
Anyway, for those of you who have never watched it, allow me to explain. The gist of the story is that Andy’s housekeeper Aunt Bee, {who also happens to be his aunt :)}, makes pickles. And her pickles are terrible. Everyone knows this but her because for some strange reason, she never tries her pickles. Anyway, they are described in the episode by Andy’s deputy Barney, {aka: Don Knotts}, as “kerosine cucumbers”. So, long story short, she makes these terrible pickles that nobody likes but everybody pretends to like so they won’t hurt her feelings and by a strange twist of events Andy and Barney decide to tactfully make the eight quarts of pickles disappear by giving them away to people passing through Mayberry and replacing them with eight quarts of store bought pickles. Then suddenly Aunt Bee decides to enter the pickles in the pickle contest that’s held annually in the city of Mayberry. This same pickle contest she had previously lost for eleven years in a row. So Andy obviously can’t let her enter the store bought pickles because if she won it would be cheating, so they eat the eight quarts of pickles while Aunt Bee’s out of the house and when she returns and finds them all gone she’s so disappointed they feel bad and encourage her to make another batch to enter in the contest. She ends
up losing of course and they in turn end up having to eat eight new quarts of her terrible pickles anyway.
So in actuality, they don’t gain anything at all, {except maybe a stomach ache from eating way to many pickles}. From my way of thinking, wouldn’t it be easier if they had just told her the truth about her pickles in the first place? They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble that way. Sure, sometimes the truth hurts, but at the same time, there are some things that need to be said. Maybe we should try being a little more honest with each other. Not mean, but honest. It would probably make the world a better place. Not as confusing anyway. :)
Well, that’s all I have to say friends. God Bless y’all! Till next time, this is…well, me, signing off.
-Abby