Sometimes there isn’t a title

I don’t have many thoughts about the word totter, but I can say reading it this morning made me think of the word tater. In baseball a tater is slang for a homerun and I miss baseball. I don’t miss the greed involved in baseball, or the disregard for fans during the 82-day lockout, but I miss the game.

It’s possible that I thought of tater because I like potatoes. I like potatoes very much and as a matter of fact, I made a loaf of potato bread this past weekend.

Food.

I had a girlfriend a long time ago and the first meal she cooked for me, maybe a few months into the relationship, was a tater tot hotdish. She cooked the dinner at my apartment because her apartment was a mess. Not a messy, dirty, mess, but a mess with a lot of people always there. She shared the place with her sister and her sister’s friend and they always had people over. Between the two of them there was always a brother or a sister hanging around, or a cousin hanging around, or a niece or a nephew hanging around, or a co-worker, or a neighbor or, I don’t know, an absolute stranger hanging around. Like I said, it was a mess. So she cooked and we ate and it was good and later that evening, the night she cooked the tater tot hotdish, I developed a kidney stone and had to go to the hospital. I joked later that her cooking sent me to the hospital, but she didn’t think that was funny. There’s a Jewish proverb that says anyone who teases you loves you, and I don’t totally disagree with that, but hindsight has taught me that’s not and assumption I’m going to make because everyone is different. I understand words hurt and my teasing, while innocent fun on my part, hurt her. There was more involved than teasing over a hotdish, but it wasn’t all that many months later that she went from girlfriend to ex-girlfriend.

Some people like teasing and some people don’t. Such is life. Ride the teeter totter. Live and learn.

I almost forgot . . . I don’t know if you know this or not, but back in medieval times, the knights would all sit around the round table and tease Lance.

A lot.