Bad Habits
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Going through life, I have run across people with bad habits.
Nothing really too bad, but sometimes it was annoying to see it.
I know that I have done some things that bothers others some too,
If that were the case, I apologize to them now, that’s all I can do.
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Bad Habits
My wife Pam chews bubble gum almost all the whole day through.
She has a bad habit of popping her gum as she does the gum chew.
That popping drives me right up the wall with serious irritation,
Perhaps more than anything else out there in God’s whole creation.
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I had a boss named Tom that always seemed so very up tight.
He wore these loose slack pants that never seemed to fit right.
When he came in my office to give me a new job for me to do.
He scratched his balls there the whole time until he was through.
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We were friends with a lady named Jean with the Mickey Mousers.
I often told life stories when we were out at one of our houses.
Everytime I told a true exciting story of one of our adventures,
Her words were “That’s nothing, here’s my story,” so contentious.
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We have a friend named Paulette we ran around with quite a bit,
Who liked to criticize others actions a little as she thought fit.
When I heard her say “Bill, can I be frank with you?”, up I would sit,
As I knew she was fixing to tell me I was in some kind of deep shit.
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Sometimes I sit and watch TV with my son in law Carl, a fine man,
He just seems to have a whole lot of nervous energy in his hand.
When he finishes a water and squeezes the plastic bottle a lot,
That crinkling noise puts me right on the ceiling, like it or not.
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My clogging partner in Misques, Linda, had a bad smoking habit.
She told us she quit as she went along happily months without it.
One day we found out that the whole time she smoked on the sly.
This announcement annoyed me so much that I wanted to cry.
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I had a boss, Ken, that sometimes got some serious road rage.
I was with him when a guy cut in front of his Cadillac one day.
He floor boarded it, burning rubber all the way around him so fast,
Scaring the hell out of me as we barely missed the car he did pass.
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On my job, there was a lady engineer named Maria, a nice lady.
Who complained weekly to our boss that her jobs were shady,
She wanted the good jobs like she said that they gave to Bill,
They said “He gets it done on the run, when you do, you will.”
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I had a friend in the army named Jack who bummed cigarettes,
He bummed so many it irritated me so much I almost did quit,
But I started carrying a stale pack of Kents just to give to him.
He smoked two stale Kents, never asking for a cigarette again.
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I love all these fine people that irritate me a little bit sometimes.
So don’t get angry at me for laying my idiosyncrasies on the line.
I know very well I do somethings that irritate everyone as much,
So let’s love everyone and live with things that our nerves do touch.
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By Bill
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Thanks for reading Bad Habits,
Bill
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