Miranda was getting bored with all the chatter and wanted to go back inside where it was warm. There wasn't much to say on that subject. It was just another Miranda thing. So Bob gets her a shawl and that solved that problem.
Everybody decided to stay out on the porch and watch the stars. All except Aunt Wanda and Ray who were more interested in watching each other. And the old lady went on and on with the questions. But all the answers came back to the same thing, "Not one of us".
Getting flustered with all this, she told the little group, "But sometimes they're right; the ones you say aren't one of you. Even when something's fairly obvious, you still believe things people tell you that don't make any sense why?"
All this time Uncle Will had been laid out horizontal, staring at the stars and going on about the rings of Jupiter. But when he heard what Ms T said, he made a decision. Since he was already a famous astronomer he might as well be a philosopher king too.
He rose up on one elbow and told her it was just like a football game. Even if you don't like the quarterback and think he doesn't know sh*t from shoe polish, you still root for him. You don't think about it, it's just what you do. You root for your team! He may be a lousy quarterback but he's still on your team."
"But what if the quarterback keeps fumbling the ball? Don't you ever want to change quarterbacks, even when there's a better one ready to take the field?"
Then, of all people, Uncle Marvin speaks up, "What the hell Ms T, look around, we're not doing so bad and once all those tax increases stop the jobs will come back and things will go back to normal.
And then he leaned over as if to give her a real piece of information (he made a bad sound when he did, but so what, people on dope don't care about stuff like that.). "And we all look alike, and don't think that's not important."
"Okay Marvin, but don't you want to help your fellow man do what Christians are supposed to do?"
Some looked down and some smiled, but Marvin was the most direct, "no Ms T, no we don't."
"Why?"
"Cause charity begins at home and everybody has to do for themselves."
"What about those that can't do that because no one will give them a job?"
"There are poor folks' hospitals and besides, Uncle Sam's doing more than he should right now for some of the people that look just like Obama."
"But don't you ever get mad when big corporations treat you like you were nothing?'
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