My Grandma Myrna would use early afternoons of each day to prepare food in her apartment for transfer to the City Club kitchen. You know! Chili. Hot beef to be sliced for sandwiches. Stuff like that. She always had her radio on (yes, they had radios in those days) and one of the programs was called “As the World Turns”. It was just a melodramatic soap opera but it created a background “noise” that just really went on and on and on. I think it is still on television these days and it still goes on and on and on. I remember the program advertisements for Doans pills. The pills were supposed to relieve back pain which I found out meant they were a laxative. Apparently if you relieve your “bound up” condition, your back pain disappears.
Life goes on. Shit happens. The world adjusts. New conditions are created. The world adjusts. So it is with the lives of the Grasshoppers.
Grasshopper No. 4 is now into week 2 of his new job with Dowco in Manitowoc. No. 4’s exposure to the Johnsonville system was invaluable. When I was at Ripon Foods, we hired Ralph Stayer Jr. to consult on empowering employees. Ralph walked the walk. Ralph has a company culture that encourages employee involvement and rewards fresh ideas. Maybe something rubbed off on No. 4. The world turns.
Grasshopper No. 1 starts her new job in Sheboygan today managing a smaller version of the previous Wisconsin Vision outlet. She just had electric shock to slow down her heart. I hope the new job doesn’t speed it up! Just kidding. I think Debs is looking forward to the new challenge. The world turns.
Grasshopper No. 5 has always had an interest in photography. Her persistence with photo art and concentrating on people and things in Minneapolis has evolved into a neat segway for her website design for the Star Tribune in the big city. Almost a Mary Tyler Moore repeat. “She’s gonna make it on her own”. Congratulations on her first gallery showing. The world turns.
Grasshoppers No. 2 and No. 3 are in life’s groove. Stay tuned. Something will change. Opportunities will arise and they too will be forced to adjust to the turning world.
I can’t reisist ending with a comment on Jennifer Wilbanks, the “Atlanta runaway bride” of seveal years ago. You know. She faked kidnapping two days before her expensive wedding and turned up in Las Vegas or Mexico or some strange location. A definite fruitcake with blond roots. Well, she is suing her former financee for some money he made selling his story about the “runaway event”. This is front page stuff! Didn’t the North Koreans just set off a nuclear device. What page is that on? And the world turns.
My advice Grasshopper is take Doan’s Pills. You won’t have any backpain and you’ll find it easier to deal with the world.
Love
Dad