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with Marty Clayton
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"High On The Hog"
by Marty Clayton
Banfield
copyright 2007
Most of us know what "hump
day" is in the work week. It is Wednesday-and you
will usually have a big sigh of relief in getting past it,
since your work week is almost at its end.
This brings to my mind a very different "hump day" which
I experienced in my younger years. I would have to say
that this was the very first "hump day" I ever experienced
and I was so relieved to get past it!
It
all began when my mother was driving a few of us kids to
town. We had an old light blue early sixties Ford
Falcon. It was a small car, and one of my brothers and I
were in the back seat, and my mama was driving. We were
playing and talking in the back seat, and we were right in
front of Freeman Bishop's place, going to "town" (Ehrhardt,
SC) when all of a sudden our little car just rose up in
the air, almost as if a great whale had gotten under a little
boat. We rocked frontwards & then sideways a little,
and finally there was a loud thump and we were back down on
the ground again. My mama just kept on driving us to
town, as if nothing ever happened, but I remember
her exclaiming that we had just run over one of Freeman's
hogs!
We looked back & then saw the huge hog
walking off the side of the road, it must have been stunned a
little, and so we knew then for sure what had happened.
My mama began crying, and she must have felt really bad
for running over the hog. It was not a small one either,
as it pitched our little Falcon up in the air, and I remember
thinking, we are "high on the hog" now! Later, after we
got home, Mr. Bishop was contacted about the hog, and
everything was straightened out. Being a small child,
this was something you would not forget! So, hump
day means something different to me than it might to some of
you, but nevertheless, there is a lesson to be learned here
for all of us.
No matter what obstacle
gets into your path in life, remember that there will always
be a "hump day" somewhere along the way. There will come
a time when you will begin to see signs of making it past some
of the big "humps" & hurdles in your life. Just like
my mother did, however, you just might have to keep your eyes
on the road and your foot on the gas, and keep on going &
don't look back! You can always see the silver lining
behind the clouds, if you look hard enough. I will never
forget that day that we were truly "High on the
Hog!"
Well, I am getting a little hungry now, so I
think I will go fry me up some good old country ham!
Yes, I think some good old southern grits would go just fine
with that ham, don't you? Won't you join me? See
you next time, and ya'll come back, ya hear?
Marty Clayton Banfield
email: lastdays@bellsouth.net 
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