Coffee Pots and Rocket Engineers

Good evening my friends. Just sitting here in my living room listening to my 3rd grade daughter Lizzie complain about math homework. I cant really say I blame her too much. Growing up, I was never really much on school. For the most part I have no memories to speak of before my 6th grade year. And the 7th grade... well that was the 3 worst years of my life!

But I overcame my dislike of all things intellectual and crammed a 4 year degree into 7 years and I can honestly say that I am now officially educated beyond my level of intelligence. Like many young men, I found the best part of college to be the pool table in the Community buidling! And now, I sit here with my BS Degree from the Huston Tillotson School of Law and Sheet Metal work, listening to the endless whine of homework drudgery and constant questioning of why one needs so much education anyway.

The best that I can offer to encourage the reticent offspring of my youth is that failure to apply oneself to the completion of math homework will ultimately result in a worldwide shortage of rocket scientest.

Now before you begin to ponder on why we would need a interminable supply of rocket scientest please stop to consider the invaluable inventions that we now enjoy that could only have come from such educated minds. Things such as braile on the numbers of the drive up atm.... now there is a driver you better keep your eye on! Or how about the genius who genetically engineered boneless chicken, just cant picture them flopping all over the yard.

Then of course my favorite is the guy who labeled the iron we bought... Caution... do not iron clothes while on body... DUH! And I was so hoping to save some time here! Or of course my favorite is the Braniac who invented string cheese........ is it a dairy product or what?!

Of course we all know that the greatest demand for rocket scientist today is found in the laboratories of any company that manufactures coffee pots. It takes incredible intellect to create a pot that will NOT pour a cup of coffee without also pouring water or coffee all over the bar, the floor, the cabinets and your pants. Pour it slow.... you get wet. Pour it fast... you get wet.... faster. Pour it from the side of the pot.... well.. you get the picture.! That is why most coffee pots today come with a 12 cup pot... so that you can get a good 4 cups of coffee out of it while you mop up the other 8 cups of water that escaped from the pot in the transfer!

Yes I remain cynical when it comes to the reasoning and intellectual levels of our "elite rocket scientist". As for me, I think I will stick to my degree from the school of hard knocks! So come on kids... get out there and learn something! I am going to go fix me another cup of coffee and mop the kitchen one more time tonight!