I always draw the short straw.
She gets the drumstick.
I should be quicker
more assertive.
Less of a bozo.
That’s the trouble when you share.
In our circle
old courtesies die hard.
The lady goes first.
Die Hard
John Malone
playful panda
I always draw the short straw.
She gets the drumstick.
I should be quicker
more assertive.
Less of a bozo.
That’s the trouble when you share.
In our circle
old courtesies die hard.
The lady goes first.
John Malone 
Yes, indeed. “Ladies first” always brings to mind a song from a 1970s recording called “Free to Be You and Me.” Here is the animated version of it… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NkYlelUUck
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just watched it; hilarious with a biting moral, if you’ll excuse the pun 🙂
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Ronald Reagan had a good story about drumsticks
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just read it: hilarious ; that Ronnie sure had a store of good jokes up his sleeve 🙂 might risk telling it to our dinner group next Friday 🙂
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one person’s drumstick is another’s loss of limb
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so true, Beth: nicely put 🙂
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I would let you have the drumstick but it’s good to know chivalry is still alive.
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thanks; would gratefully accept it 🙂
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“…….old courtesies die hard” What is that within ourselves which leads to this mindset?
Shakti
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I don’t know; maybe it’s the way we were brought up; the culture of those times
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good one!
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