Horse Meat and Ants by stan

The power of the mind is awesome and sometimes strange.

Sometimes it doesn't matter what something really is. What really matters is what your mind perceives it to be.

Take for example the day I got a great buy on ribs. They were 45 cents a pound (remember my name is Old Grizz).  I bought about 20 lbs for the week end cook out. The normal price in those days was around 1.75 per lb so you know I got a great deal,

 But that is where the mind thing comes in.

About the time I got  those ribs half way home I began to wonder why they were so cheap and of course my mind naturally got around to "horse meat". The more I thought about those ribs the more I could see some poor ass horse in a slaughter house and the more my stomach began to churn.

I wasn't about to eat "horse meat" so I threw the ribs out. I knew I would never be able to eat them.

Fast forward to my life in the here and now.

We just paid big bucks to have a new kitchen put in and my wife had to have "granite" counter tops.  She chose the color.  It is dark Brown or black with beige mixed in.

The other night I was fixing a snack on her pretty new counter and I was attacked by ants.  They were everywhere but I didn't even see them when I started the snack.

Seemed like there were millions of the little thugs and I couldn't see them. They blended in with the counter top very nicely. Of course I sprayed and sprayed and washed and washed and sent all their little bodies into the sewer.

Now my problem is this "ants in the mind"...my mind. I see ants every time I go into the kitchen.

My wife has never been so happy. I wash the dam counter at least 3 times every night and twice before my coffee in the morning. I can't get them out of my mind.

God how I wish I was an Aardvark.