I wasn't necessarily looking forward to a 90-minute to Mankato .. even though Highway 169 is a nice drive. But getting through traffic in the Twin Cities to get to 169 -- even in mid-afternoon -- takes patience, grit and a lot of perseverence. Fortunately, I had the perfect sedative for such a journey.
Tom Lehrer was a satirist in the late 1950s and 1960s. He only made a couple of records (that are now on CDs) but the humor seems as a fresh now as it did then. Oh, it helps to be old enough to remember and understand jokes about people like George Murphy and Hubert Humphrey. I hardly noticed the idiot who made a left hand turn without a blinker and the guy who stopped in the middle of the highway to grab a cellphone that had apparently fallen out of his hand.
I merely listened to Mr. Lehrer's humor and moved on.
We live in parlous times. We all have a lot on our plates these days. It seems that no matter where you turn, somebody is unhappy and can't wait to tell the world about it. When you have enough of that, all that is left is to listen to somebody who makes you smile.
The 90 minutes fairly flew by. Now I am in a hotel with a dozen high school girls softball teams. What possibly can go wrong now?
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