Don’t Laugh! The Banana Skin Might Be Under your Own Feet Someday!

Mamma did not like people who made fun of others. It was OK if you carried on with a friend as long as the banter wasback and forth.But if you made funof somebody and that personwasn’t there to hear you say it to their face, she’d always come back with,”Don’t make fun, the banana skin might be under your own feet someday.She did not want us getting any high fluetin ideas about ourselves being better than others. In her eyes, we all do stupid things sometimes, so be careful who you critize because somebody may be watching you too.

I recently committed this sin. My hubby of thirty five years was coming up the driveway. It is spring and in spring our driveway becomes a sea of mud.

Now every year, he,without fail bogs one of the cars to the axles in the mud. Well, even though I warned him to stay to the right he managed to bog the car. Not only that, once he bogged it (Iwalked to the house by this time), he continued to spin the tires in the mud for five minutes, digging quite a hole. When he finally came up to the house I taunted him about being stubborn and not listening.

The next day he got the car out and washed away the mud. He also put up a reflector to let visitors know about the slurry mud that might swallow their cars. A couple of days went by and bright eyes here thought she could do better than hubby and get by the mud by keeping to the right. It didn’t happen. I landed in the hole he had dug days before! When I called him at work to tell him, he did not chide me or make fun. When he came home, he got the car out and didn’t even torment me about being a know-it-all. I wish he had!

As I sat there in my bogged down car all I could think of was,”Don’t make fun. The banana skin might be under your own feet someday!” I slipped on that muddy peel too.Lesson learned mamma!