Actually, this e-mail comes out of Chuck Odessa's SNIPES n' GRIPES e-mail file. He handed it to me one day last week and told me that he couldn't keep up with his sniper and griper's many snipes and gripes!

Joe Pump griped:

"Cilantro---Bah!!! Humbug!!!! What's the big deal about cilantro anyway? The way Bobby Flay on the Food Network tells us, you would think that's it's the best thing to come along since white bread. Got that good southwest flavor, he says. So I decided to plant some. Grew pretty good too. Now I can't stop it from bolting. I pulled all the stems that were bolting and my hands smell like an old sneakers. An old, worn out sneaker about a year old. Put cilantro and an old sneaker side by side and I'll take the old sneaker. Give me that good old Italian flat leaf parsley anytime. Tomorrow that cilantro is coming up and something else is going in its place!

"I'm sanding my old car to get it ready for a Maaco paint job special. They advertise a paint job for $189 but then they tell you they have to do this and that and the price is driven up. I told them that I have a lot of time and I'll do the sanding and all I want them to do is shoot the paint. It's an 84 Olds, not a Rolls Royce. No body rot like my truck. A good running car. Bah!!! Humbug!!! If you want something done looks like ya gotta do it yourself!

"Rain! We were promised more for today and all we got was .03 inches. That's POINT 03 INCHES. My garden is thirsty!! Bah!!! Humbug!!! I'm going to change the name of that song from "It Never Rains In Sunny California" to "It Never Rains In Southern Connecticut" But these dry spells never seem to bother the weeds!"

Next to this guy, my slaps n' smacks seem to pale in the daytime sky so I'm going to pass for this month's feature. I sure hope that this guy can find some peace in his life! I think that I'll send him an e-mail about the brighter side of life.

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