Ok. So here was my random comment for this week. I was driving the interstate and saw a trucker driving bob-tail (without a trailer). (It made me think of
@steve ). It is terrifically difficult (for me) to back a 25 foot trailer . . . much less a 53 foot trailer. I can only imagine how pulling through downtown Chicago at 5 o'clock would be . . . or pulling in the snow . . . or trucking 60,000 lbs of live cattle. Driving just the semi without a trailer . . . . SOOOOO much easier.
It seemed to me a pretty good metaphor for manhood. It's a lot easier driving bobtail. If you're not pulling wives and a family . . . if you're not looking out for everyone else on the road as you are trying to make your way. It's a lot easier . . . but it's pointless. Just like a semi-tractor is BUILT for the load and without that load it's kind of pointless, so it is with men.
Also . . . Not to put single men out in the cold . . . one of my best friends never married, but he pulled EVERYONE in our little town. He was invested in the lives of SO many people. So, yeah. That was my random thought.