The Commander buys Kadizzle a six pack, and The Preachers daughter

At the morning briefing as The Commander surfed the Amazon site she announced she was buying Kadizzle a six pack. It sounded great until she said it was a six pack of underwear.  Although the underwear drawer is full to the point of running over,  the quality is bad.  Too many of the undergarments are burnt out, and the elastic is failing.  So soon the family jewels will have a new comfortable home.

On a rainy day sitting in the engine room on the computer Kadizzle is listing to the musical Oliver.  A thousand years ago Kadizzle remembers listening to this with one of his first real girl friends in her basement. Her dad was a preacher, but a nice guy.

A classic song from Oliver is "You got to pick a pocket or two".   It so much sounds like the perfect song for the political season.

Back to the preachers daughter.  As time progressed Kadizzle went off to college, and the preacher, and his daughter moved to Weston, West Virginia.

The preachers daughter made a big mistake.  She invited accidentally somehow two boyfriends to visit her at the same time.  This meant she had to make up her mind.  Remember the old song " It ain't often easy, it ain't often kind, but sometimes you have to make up your mind. "  Luckily Kadizzle turned out to be the chosen one.  The dilemma was what to do with the other guy.  Soon that problem was solved. The parents would take him with them to an auction. Meanwhile Kadizzle was going to take the daughter to the drive in movie or somewhere.  The parents left with the other suitor.  With some time to spare Kadizzle thought it best to engage in some serious passion on the couch with the preachers daughter.

This was a dangerous couch.  At the end of the couch was a door.  As things were heating up with the daughter the door popped open at the end of the couch and the preacher appeared. He had forgotten something.  The preacher declared "What in the hell", as he observed his daughter jump up and run somewhere.  As Kadizzles heart thumped fearing his life was about to end the preacher said " I want to have a talk with you".  The preacher got what ever he forgot and left.  Kadizzles mind was racing. What should he do? Kadizzle had hitch hiked to Weston and thought he might be well served by running upstairs grabbing his brown leather bag and making a break.

Kadizzle got his nerves calmed and decided to face the music. When the preacher returned it was time for "the talk".  It looked like a scene out of a movie.  There were two stuffed chairs with a lamp in between.  The minister calmly stated that what he wanted to talk about was his son.  The weight of the Earth lifted.  In complete shock Kadizzle was hearing the minister say that he valued Kadizzles judgement and wondered how Kadizzle would advise him about a problem he was having with his son.  Expecting to get a lecture on Hell this was a great relief.  The moral of this story is never blurt out a confession until you have been accused of a crime.

Now for the rest of the story.  Thirty years after the dangerous encounter with no word from the preachers daughter Kadizzle got a call from her.  It was very strange.  Sitting in the office of another employee at the power plant the phone rang.  Chris handed me the phone and to my amazement it was the preachers daughter.  We had a little conversation, and caught up a little on our lives.  When the conversation ended Kadizzle was stunned and said to Chris "I wonder what in the hell that was about".  Chris said "She is divorced, and she is checking the list".  "What?" I said.  Chris said "She is probably going through a list of all her old boyfriends".

That night Kadizzle went home and told The Commander about the whole thing.  Then Kadizzle decided to make a call to the preachers daughter to find out more.  Sure enough Chris was right. She had married the other guy who was at her house when Kadizzle had the encounter with dad.  The other guy became a minister, married her, they had children, he had and affair and they were thrown out of the parish.  Now she was divorced and checking the list.  Kadizzle now does admire the advice of the preacher. The preacher must of told the daughter Kadizzle was the best choice.  Well he was right.  Kadizzle has been married for forty years and has two wonderful kids.