I’m a cautious person. Some might say I am overly cautious. That’s fair.
But I believe in looking before I leap and so far, that has prevented me from leaping off any cliffs. Many bad things don’t happen to me and I hope they never will.
I am not like the couple in Texas the other day who wanted to smoke some weed and so ducked into a vacant house to do so. So far, so good, I guess. In my younger days I used to wander through old, abandoned houses just for fun.
But if I was to go into a vacant house in Houston to smoke some weed, the first thing I would do is call out, “Here kitty, kitty!” Just in case there was a cat inside.
The couple referred to above didn’t do that and consequently ran into a tiger that was inside the house. All is well for tiger and humans, who at first thought they were hallucinating, but this is precisely the kind of thing that would never happen to me.
In fact, I can proudly proclaim that I am practically an expert in staying away from tigers. A little thing I picked up on the farm growing up when the elders told me to stay away from tigers.
And so I do.
©2019 Jim Hagarty
