Men Are Like Kentucky Fried Chicken

I was watching this video on how men pick up women.  I always like to read and watch how men are supposed to pick me up.  Have I got this all backwards?  Anyway, on the video they had several hot women and they asked the hot women what they want in a guy.  All the women wanted a guy with a good sense of humor.  I consider myself a hot woman, and I want a guy with a good sense of humor too.

Two weeks after my husband passed away of a heart attack in front of me, I walked into my computer graphics class and my instructor was making all these jokes and I could actually laugh.  It felt like every nerve ending in my body was screaming at the same time, but I could laugh in the midst of the worse of the worse circumstances at my college teacher’s pathetic jokes.  It actually made my instructor happy when I told him that he “made my day.”

That is the type of guy I like.  One who makes me laughs.  My husband was an engineer and he did not have a funny bone in his body, but there is one thing I could tease him about every evening and it would bring a smile to his face, even with no sense of humor. 

If you don’t think God has a sense of humor just go to a zoo and look at a giraffe, hippopotamus, elephants, rhinoceros, monkeys picking fleas off of each other, or just go look in the mirror.  My heavenly Father and I laugh all the time about many things in life.  My sister liked to get me down on the ground and tickle me under my rib cage until I would say, “Uncle.”

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22

A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. Proverbs 15:13

For the despondent, every day brings trouble; for the happy heart, life is a continual feast. Proverbs 15:5

A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones. Proverbs 15:30

I got in trouble a lot in junior high school for joking around with the boys.  It was like the Gestapo with the principal’s office for pretending that I was mooing like a cow when heavy set women teachers would walk in to class.  The last laugh was on me because I gained 40 lbs in middle age too.  In fact, God told me that if I criticize any woman for gaining weight, he will just add another 5lbs. on me.  It’s like how Pinocchio’s father made his nose grow when he told a lie.  So now whenever I see anyone extremely overweight, I pray and ask the Lord to help them lose weight.

There was this one boy, Tim Wiley, whose brother was best friends with my brother and I talked to him all the time and then I had to sit in the hall a lot in Mr. Everson’s Social Studies class.  I liked sitting in the hall so I could talk to other students who walked by in the hall. Tim was very short and I used to call him,"Tiny Tim." The apple does not fall far from tree, because when I went to visit my son’s open house when he was in junior high, he got in trouble too for goofing off in Mr. Everson’s class.   My son now writes cartoon parodies for the web.  His most popular cartoon is "Star Wars Gangsta Rap."

I’ve been thinking about most of my close men and women friends and they all have a good sense of humor.  I like someone who can “lighten the load in life” with their merry heart. 

You can go watch all those horror flicks like Silence of the Lambs, Cape Cod or Hannibal and I’ll stick with a comedy movie.  The Bible had its own version of the movie Hangover when it came to Jacob.  Jacob must have had beer goggles on because he woke up to Leah in bed with him when he wanted Rachel!

Many times what we see with our physical eyes determines our success in life because we don’t see with the eye of faith in life as God sees.  I would consider being single now at my age in Indiana with the brain drain of people graduating from a university and leaving the state, or already being married.  I have found a few semi-intelligent men, as in semi-truck. Nothing wrong with semi-truck drivers, in fact they can listen to books on CD in their trucks.  Jesus picked fishermen as his top crew.

But its like I went to Kentucky Fried Chicken and I got there very late and the finer pieces of chicken are picked over and the pickens are very slim.  It’s all a matter of perspective.  “Okay I’ll take two drums sticks rather than a breast.”  I’ll let you know in the future if I can take the two slender drumsticks.  I guess it depends on how hungry you are when you go to KFC or if you decide to drive off and look for another food venue.

My husband had great legs, very strong arms and muscular shoulders.  He did not play sports in high school or college due to chronic asthma, but he was athletic and like in the Song of Solomon, I loved his body and considered his legs were two fine muscular pillars.  Many times I see guys now at single things that slouch and they don’t work out in a gym very much.

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars. Song of Solomon 5:15

So do I want to settle for the two slender drumsticks?  When I was single at 36 years old with four small children,  I was just looking for a man who had a job, was fun to be around and had a relationship with the Lord when I met my husband.  I got a great package deal from God.   I guess I got the #1 value meal deal.   Wow I’m so hungry now I’m ready to go to KFC or to the gym…LOL.