Old Farts Breakfast At Carols Solves Most Major Problems
By Richard Dowson, Moose Jaw
I’ve been having Saturday breakfast with a small group of old farts up at Carol’s on the North Service Road for many years. We go way back.
We talk politics. Not municipal or provincial – but the real important stuff. National and world politics. Sports and weather are occasionally part of the conversation, but briefly.
Our Objective is to re-shape the World! We are almost there. A few more Saturday breakfasts and we will have world problems solved – I think.
As of yet we have not received any calls from world figures wanting out advice. Don’t laugh. That could happen.
Carol’s Catering on the North Service Road
Criticism of our Saturday morning endeavor is always the same rant. “You can’t do anything about Trump or world politics so why bother?”
Because someone has to try!
The challenges are great. We haven’t been able to change the weather or the success of the Moose Jaw Warriors, but we can talk about it and sort through suggestions.
Underneath all the chatter is the real reason. World politics gets old people talking. Gets then using their minds. Gets them thinking. Gets them making decisions. Gets them reflecting onat least two generations of knowledge.
The mind is an important part of the body. I’ve heard people refer to the human brain as a muscle. (I’ve meant guys with very thick brain muscles.) The brain has to be exercised. Not using your brain for even stupid stuff like complaining about the weather, means it will atrophy and dry up.
The scene of the crime at Carol’s Catering
We can’t have that.
Imagine a society full of old farts, sitting around with vacant looks on their face because their brain has dried up. Better to have them complaining about world affairs.
So, when you hear old people complaining about the government or the latest pronouncement of Donald Trump, or how the Moose Jaw Warriors blew it; think of it as the old people using their brains for the equivalent of ‘walking laps’ at YARA. They are just doing mental exercises.
Writer Richard Dowson is a retired educator.
He is known for his frequenting local coffee shops and other places seniors gather.
In a previous life he wrote comedy for CHED in Edmonton.
His views may or may not reflect the views of this publication.