I have been studying people and marketing all of my life. Anthropology and sociology and the behavior sciences are exciting to me.  I think because of it I don’t fault people for what they do or say.  I believe most of the time it is just a person taking the easy way out and exhibiting the hand they have been dealt.  It’s like if you block an entrance they move to the open door.  We are predictable.  It is getting easier to manipulate, coerce and fool people. 

During the COVID pandemic our Public Affairs office divided the time each of us could come into the office to limit close contact with others.  It was a lonely time.  One Friday after not speaking to another human being in a few hours, the phone rang.  It was the line that the public would use to call the US Army for all kinds of reasons.  

Public Affairs Office may I help you? A male voice with a southern accent said…

THIS IS TYRONE WITHERSPOON FOR A RADIO CHECK, OVER.

After a pause, I said, I read you loud and clear, 5 X 5 sir, over.

TEN FOUR!

 

And he hung up.

I laughed off and on for the rest of the day.  I thought that would be a good stage name for a blues guy.  Hey, I’m a blues guy. I’ll call myself, Spoon.

Spoons are not dangerous.  They don’t have sharp edges.  We give babies spoons.  They are safe.  It’s not as scary as a Lightening, Muddy, Wolf, or king of anything…