Random Thoughts

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1. Back when I was a kid, there in our neighborhood across the street from us, was a family with three boys. They were okay I guess, just regular kids doing regular kid type things. But the older lady next door to us didn’t like them at all. Any excuse to accuse the boys of doing something naughty, she would. She’d rant and rave about those delinquent boys, and they better stay out of her yard,and on and on she went. The boys didn’t go out of their way to aggravate her or anyone as far as I knew. But the one phrase I remember the most that she always said was … “I’m calling the FBI on them”.  The FBI stands for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and I don’t think they’d come out to arrest the boys for being kids.

Funny though, I didn’t know what that was, the FBI, because I was just a kid myself, and I always thought she was saying she was going to call the ‘Yippie Yi’. That didn’t make sense at all. The only Yippie Yi I’d ever heard of was in relation to cowboy’s hollering yippie yi, to the cattle they were herding. Home, home on the range kind of deal was what I was thinking about. What…was the yippie yi going to come round up the boys like cattle… and then what? Actually nobody really worried about it or paid her any attention when she started ranting.

But, I still remember. I don’t remember when exactly I finally figured out it was the FBI she was talking about, though. 🙂

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