Jay Thomas vs Truckin' Lent

I've never really done the Lent "thing".  I've never been terribly religious and just didn't really want to give anything up.  I also just thought that was a catholic thing.  Plus I hate the movie 40 Days and 40 Nights.

This year for whatever reason I decided to take part in Lent with a couple of my co-workers.  We all swear a lot.  A ton.  Very vulgar people, but genuinely sweet to be around.  The plan was, if we said a naughty word like...well I can't say or type them but you can guess, we would donate a canned good to a food pantry.  We would trust each other on the honor system that if we swore we would let the others know.

On the second day we added a quarter on to every time we swore after the initial offense.  No bull snottin' around, this has been tough.  We each donated a can and change everyday the first week.  The first weekend I only had one mistake but it wasn't my fault.  It was my wife.  She made me do it by eating the last dark chocolate graham cracker treat and leaving the box empty on the counter.  I was super peeved at that one.  I called her a "brat @$$".  I made it up and it cost me a can.

I've learned in the last two weeks that one of my favorite words is the "SH" word. Maybe you refer to it as just simply the "S" word.  If you are still lost in the woods, I'm talking about the other word for poop, doodie, dookie, crap, feces that starts with an SH and ends with the tiny word IT.  This is the word that has caused me a lot of soup.  I love soup but as it turns out, I like that word even more.  I say it like I breathe.

Last week, I did pretty well actually.  Only two cans and 50 cents.  It's getting easier not to say mutha crackin' naughty words but I can feel the itch.  Right down to my gosh darn soul.  With any rootin' tootin' luck I'll make it out of Lent alive and fudgin' kickin'!(I don't kick due to my disability so that last part was just unnecessary, my apologies.) 

I guess we'll see what week 3 will bring.  Hopefully it won't be a donkey face and go easy on this silly Richard head.  My fingers are truckin' crossed!

Your friend,

Jay