The Lazy Man

Saving the extra trip is the lazy man's way! I see it all the time. In fact, just this morning at a Starbucks. But his lazy ways turned into the hard way as usual.

The Starbucks employee evidently had a delivery to make. A huge keg of coffee, stacks of paper cups, napkins, and a few other things. He was carrying the keg of coffee with both hands by the handles, the big paper sack of paper cups was on top, as were the napkins. Well, the paper sack decided not to stay there and started to fall. He quickly set the keg down and tried to catch the sack of paper cups. But, you know, these paper sacks aren't very strong. So the sack ripped and the paper cups tumbled to the floor. The employee tried to pick them up before anyone else could see. Well, sorry, but we all saw. In the end he made three trips to his car. He could have made it in two if he wasn't so lazy. But, you know this too: that's kinda the way men are!

The other day I was with a group packing Christmas boxes. We were putting wrapped gift boxes into big cartons for shipment. Some of the cartons were a little smaller than others, and, of course, men were doing the carrying. Now each carton whether big or smaller was large enough for it's own separate trip to the storage area. But then, if you are a man it doesn't work that way. So this one man decided to stack a smaller carton on top of a larger carton..... that meant only one trip to storage instead of two. So he grunted as he picked them up, grunted while carrying, grunted while trying to maneuver through the doorway, grunted going up the steps, then needed help putting them down. One trip made him tired and sweaty. I don't think it was good for his heart either. But he must have proved he was a man!

A man that I knew in Garrison, ND told me this saying and it has stuck with me ever since. He said, "A lazy man will carry himself to death." For some reason a man doesn't mind lifting, but he hates walking (taking extra steps). Proof is at the supermarkets. All the parking spots closest to the door are taken. In fact, I have received dirty looks from people who couldn't wait for me to get out of the way so they could claim their parking spot next to the door. You'd think that with all the candy and chips they buy they'd have the energy to walk a few extra steps. Heck, I have bad knees that hurt with every step and I still insist on parking furthest from the door. I don't think I'm any worse off for it. Anyway, I think you get my point about the "lazy man."

Perhaps Starbucks should have classes on carrying. I'm sure it is not just a little embarrassing for them to have their paper cups on the floor.