10 / MARCH 2022 PRIME
Old Guy Routines By Jim Drummond
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ne of the fellows at the old guy waterhole appeared rather befuddled this week. We could all tell that something wasn’t quite right. Someone finally asked him how his day was going. The gent responded, “I’m totally out of whack today. My
normal routine is all mixed up. I usually get up at the same time each day and have a cup of coffee. My mid section always begins rumbling when I am exactly halfway through my coffee, so then I take a newspaper to the privy. While I’m on the throne, at exactly
the same time each day, I think through the timetable for my daily activities. I have a set time for a workout, a walk, and lunch. I carefully plan my nap, an afternoon snack, and getting the mail out of the box. I have a specific time allowance for the waterhole so
that I’m home for the Wheel of Fortune. This morning I was in the reading room and mentally fine tuning my plans when the doorbell rang. I predicted that regardless of who it was, that my normal routine was going to be revised. It’s confounding when my schedule has to be
