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 It wasn’t like this idea just popped into his head
all at once. Great notions often take time to fester, you know. It
was like that with Windy Wilson a couple of weeks back.
Our semi-legendary cowboy, camp cook, and storyteller might have
seen this coming on, but we missed the signs. There was that piece
in the Valley Weekly Miracle about our pal, Doc, receiving that
honorary associates’ degree from Jerry Hat Trick Junior College, the
one financed and named for that hockey player. Now we knew Doc had
more degrees than a thermometer already and it puzzled us why he
needed another one.
“Doc?” said Windy over coffee, “that new diploma thingie you got is
shore ‘nuf nice. Does it help you operate on folks?”
Doc laughed, and so did the rest of us. “Nope. Not really. All I did
was make a contribution to their new gym. This was their way of
thanking me, I guess.”
“Well you know,” said Steve, “this changes everything. Now, instead
of calling our pal Doctor, we’ll have to update it and call him
Associate, I guess.”
“That’s kinda long to say, isn’t it? Now if we were to shorten it to
just the first three letters….”
“That’s not funny, Herb!”
“Then why are you laughing, Doc?” [to top of second
column] |
I guess we all were. Truth was,
they couldn’t trot out too many honors for Doc. Prince of a guy.
“You know,” Windy whispered to Steve, “I’d like to get one of them
things my ownself. How do you do it?”
“Windy, that’s one of the goofy things about an honorary degree. If
you think you deserve one, you don’t get one.”
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
Ol' Jimmy Dollar
is Slim Randles' first children's book. The book is for kids
K-3rd grades and is even better when parents read it with children.
Ol' Jimmy Dollar makes for sweet dreams and if you have a dog
even better. Available now on Amazon. |
