Lum and Abner

My grand daddy Kelley used to love the Lum and Abner radio program. Back several years ago, there was a radio station out in Bessemer that played a Lum and Abner episode every afternoon. I used to listen to them while I was driving home from work and I got hooked as well. Two years ago, at the Huntsville hamfest, I happened upon a man that was selling old time radio programs on CD. I bought two volumes of Lum and Abner and have been listening to them occasionally ever since.

Today I was listening to the episode from July 16, 1935. At one point in the show, Abner sizes up Lum's situation. He said, "You are too heavy for light work, and too light for heavy work." Well I knew when I heard it that I had found the Rosetta stone for the meaning of my life. Now I realize what has always been my problem. Like Lum, I am too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work. I have to tell you that a great burden has been lifted off my shoulders. All this time I have always felt like I was kind of a screw up. Just not able to get things exactly right. You know the feeling, like you are half a step out of time in the march of life.

Of course the next question is what do you do about it. I suppose I could loose some weight or maybe gain some, but I think I will just keep listening to Lum and Abner. After all if they can come up with a diagnosis of my problem, they can probably also come up with a solution.