The "Thanks For The Memories!" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Reading a few of the stories I have written for this blog in the past.  At times I amaze myself with a few of the stories I had written while other times I wonder why I ever posted a story being it was so terrible.  Same goes for the photographs that I have posted with a few of the stories.  Some of the photos I took to illustrate a story were professional looking while others looked like they were taken by someone with no photography skills at all.   But, after hundreds of stories, I guess I deserve to pat myself on the back for the quality of a few while wondering why some of you never told me how bad a job I did on others.  Some topics I have written about seem to draw many comments while other topics are more than likely viewed and quickly forgotten.  At times I wonder why this story or that story had comments posted after it, since I felt it wasn't a real good topic to draw comments while a story that surprisingly was about a relatively important topic received no comments at all.  I have written a few stories about my family that drew comments, mostly offering sympathy for the story.  One such story I wrote about my father told about him having his eye shot out with a BB gun as a child.  I go on to tell that I never knew he only had one eye until I was in college.  He never wanted anyone to know about his disadvantage and did a fantastic job keeping it undercover until one time I was asked to get something from his dresser drawer and I found this small box in his drawer.  I opened it and found what I thought was a marble in it.  Happened to be his original artificial eye worn when he was a child.  He eventually figured out that I knew about it and only then did he tell me about his disadvantage.  

My father

My story telling about it drew more comments than just about any other story I ever posted. I never know what type of story or a story about a specific topic will draw a few comments.  I do enjoy knowing what you think about certain topics, since I may try to write more stories about that topic.  A few times I have been disappointed by a comment or two, but that's what makes writing my stories interesting, not knowing how others might think about the same topic.  Please feel free to not only comment, but to add a few lines telling something that may come to you about the topic I have written on that particular day.  And...thanks for reading this blog.  It has kept me in touch with many of you and has given me a chance to see what you think about the same topics.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.