If God hadn’t wanted us to eat animals...

My dad and his younger brother

My dad died December 22, 1996 at the ripe old age of 65. I think about him now and then when one of his old sayings somehow pops out of my mouth. I doubt many of these were original with him, but they are what I remember him saying:

• If God hadn’t wanted us to eat animals He wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
• God only gives you so many heartbeats. Why waste them exercising?
• If you’re not ten minutes early, you’re late.
• Don’t ride the clutch.
• It all winds up in the same place anyway. (When the melted jello would mix with the mashed potatoes on his plate.)
• Call me whatever name you want, just don’t call me late for supper.

Anything your parents said that you now repeat?

See also Voices from the Past, Blue Skunk 6/4/09