Post by Rhonda on Aug 17, 2009 20:07:12 GMT -5
"Alphabet Friends"
By Bob Perks
I just discovered something today. In one
sense it was really nothing much. Then again,
everything I see is a big deal.
This, to me, was earth shattering!
Throughout grade school and definately
in high school, many of the friends I made
had a last name that started with the
letter ""P." As in Perks.
Pries, Pesta, Pall, Poad and on and on.
Why?
The alphabet. We sat in alphabetical order,
my homeroom was alphabetical and I believe I
graduated in alphabetical order.
So what?
Here's the point...how different would I have
been if my last name was Kelly or Samuels,
Jackson or Zambito? Would those letters have
made me more successful? Would I have been
a better writer if I was Bob Smith and
sat next to John Steinbeck?
Or could I have been one of the Beatles if I
was Bob Lane and sat next to John Lennon?
This also casts a dark cloud on some marriages!
Imagine thinking all this time that you fell
in love with someone as "high school sweethearts"
only to suddenly realize that you met because of
the alphabet! Look how limting that choice was!
I could have married Halle Berry (okay if I was
much younger and lived in the same town and
my name Bishop)
This now explains why I have always had a longing
for Jennifer Anniston. No, wait that doesn't
apply here. Forget I mentioned that.
So, my friend, imagine for a moment that your
last name was different.
Like Marlon Brando in "On the waterfront,"
when he said, "I coulda been somebody!"
He was wishing his last name started with
"P." He would have grown up with ME!
"I wish you enough!"
J
Bob
By Bob Perks
I just discovered something today. In one
sense it was really nothing much. Then again,
everything I see is a big deal.
This, to me, was earth shattering!
Throughout grade school and definately
in high school, many of the friends I made
had a last name that started with the
letter ""P." As in Perks.
Pries, Pesta, Pall, Poad and on and on.
Why?
The alphabet. We sat in alphabetical order,
my homeroom was alphabetical and I believe I
graduated in alphabetical order.
So what?
Here's the point...how different would I have
been if my last name was Kelly or Samuels,
Jackson or Zambito? Would those letters have
made me more successful? Would I have been
a better writer if I was Bob Smith and
sat next to John Steinbeck?
Or could I have been one of the Beatles if I
was Bob Lane and sat next to John Lennon?
This also casts a dark cloud on some marriages!
Imagine thinking all this time that you fell
in love with someone as "high school sweethearts"
only to suddenly realize that you met because of
the alphabet! Look how limting that choice was!
I could have married Halle Berry (okay if I was
much younger and lived in the same town and
my name Bishop)
This now explains why I have always had a longing
for Jennifer Anniston. No, wait that doesn't
apply here. Forget I mentioned that.
So, my friend, imagine for a moment that your
last name was different.
Like Marlon Brando in "On the waterfront,"
when he said, "I coulda been somebody!"
He was wishing his last name started with
"P." He would have grown up with ME!
"I wish you enough!"
J
Bob