In four days and eight hours, manly month will be over. I am sad to admit that it has been hit and miss at best.
It started out in a flurry of guns, black shirts, manly movies, trucks and deli meats, but at mid-month it went a little off track. Manicures? High School Musical? Poetry? COME ON!!!!!!
Last Sunday night I couldn’t even mention it from the pulpit because quite frankly I had very little positive to report.
Dave was sporting a pink shirt. Matt is publicly proclaiming his love like one of Shakespeare’s protagonists. Joe got a dog and although I thought that was going to be a manly act, I eventually found out that the dog was of a breed commonly referred to as “border doodle”. COME ON!!!!!!
Donovan is valiantly fighting the good fight by passing out knives and posting pictures on his facebook of a manly red sports car. For about seven minutes I thought the sports car pics had evened us out and brought us back on track, but I was electronically notified almost immediately that Matt was simultaneously posting pictures of house plants.
Brandy’s husband Tim has been fighting his manly fight on many fronts and much of my hope was in this young new yorker who works at Lowe’s and sports a last name that sounds like it belongs to a turn of the century bare knuckled brawler, but alas my hopes foundered yesterday when my wife reported that she spotted Tim hanging out at our local laundromat on his laptop.
I am not completely guilt free in this whole fiasco. I somehow managed to get myself addicted to Masterpiece theater and cheese danishes during manly month, and even though I planned to shoot guns two out of five weekends, I shot not one gun, but instead I played dolls with my daughter, wrote a poem and briefly considered instituting “tea time” at my place of employment.
And so ends this manly month update. We have four more days to turn it around but quite honestly I have resigned myself to a long month of pink and purple and stories of strong women in the month of February.
Until then. I need to go boil some tea…
~~Jason Queen
