Missive #520

93. Nasruddin and the Sugar

A mother brought her son to see Nasruddin. “My son eats too much sugar,” she said. “Please make him stop!”

Nasruddin patted the boy on the head and said, “Come back in two weeks and we’ll see what we can do.”

The mother promised to return in two weeks.

At their next meeting, Nasruddin looked at the boy and said sternly, “You must stop eating sugar!”

“Why did we have to wait two weeks for you to say that?” asked the mother.

“I had to make myself stop eating sugar,” replied Nasruddin, “before telling someone else to do the same.”

This Tale is from “Tiny Tales of Nasruddin” by Laura Gibbs. The book is licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. © 2019-202The2 Laura Gibbs

I went to town again yesterday for more groceries and also added some expensive gas to Desperado’s tank. Didn’t completely fill up but got as much as I was willing to pay for the next month or more. If I just drive back and forth to Reserve it will last me that long and more. With a trip to Luna to get the engine replaced I should still have enough gas that will get me someplace where it is not as expensive.

I was hoping that someplace would be a RV repair shop that will install a replacement A/C. However, I can’t find anyone that will either respond to my emails or if they do when I tell them what I want I don’t hear from them again. Fortunately, the temperatures have moved down from the 100s into the 90s & 80s. I don’t know how long that will continue but as long as it does the Ryobi fan that I bought is doing a good job in keeping me cool.

The high temperatures have been in the 90s this past week with the forecast showing 80s and maybe 70s starting next week. The weather guessers also think that there will be rain starting then also. We got 0.04″ yesterday after receiving trace rainfall a couple of other days this past week. Maybe the monsoon is starting?