Opposites Detract

Have you ever noticed how the old adage of “opposites attract” doesn’t always seem to work? Look and Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton. Still shaking my head about that one. He must have made her laugh. A lot! As I tried to get the image of them out of my head, I began pondering how some things are great for one thing and terrible for another.

• A car with a tank full of gas and a stomach full of sugar are both great. A car with a full of sugar and a stomach full of gas, not so much.

• An elephant blowing water out its nose and preschoolers playing with mice are both fun to watch. And elephant playing with mice and preschoolers blowing water out their noses can both result in messes that I wouldn’t want to clean up.

• An older, chubby man dressed like Santa Claus posing for pictures is as adorable as a photo of a baby in the buff showing off a cute little tush. If they change places it causes confusion for the baby and makes the rest of us poke our eyes out seeing the old man tush.

• A twenty-something rocker jamming on a kicking lead guitar is as cool as the blue haired grandma making her pumpkin pie with her secret ingredients that make it taste amazing. When grandma rocks out, the guitar explodes on the third verse of How Great Thou Art; when the rocker adds his secret ingredient to the pumpkin pie, everyone sits around giggling at how amazing the water looks when the toilet flushes.

• The hillbilly who makes the smoothest moonshine is as handy to know as your blonde neighbor who likes to layout in the tiny bikini in the sunshine. The blonde neighbor trying to make moonshine may lead to exploding stills and seeing the hillbilly in the bikini in the sunshine will make you want to be inside the still when it does.

It is all in how you look at things. Now if you will excuse me, the sun just came out and I need to find my binoculars. Oh no! It’s the hillbilly, again. Never mind.