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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
I want to again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water. Let's see what's going on.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.94 a bushel, 550lb steer calf top end, $5.05 $5 and a nickel. Butcher hog in Iowa will fetch you 62¢ a pound, and a lamb that's fat in Billings weighing a 100lbs $2.73 a pound, but guys there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:It says in Ephesians 4:2 Be completely humble and gentle. Be patient bearing with one another in love. I prayed for patience once.
OK Solberg:Oh, yeah. Let me tell you that story. Oh, it was my day off sun shining brightly. The wind forgot to show up and the flowers were starting to bloom. It was a kind of day you dream of, especially after a long and blustery winter.
OK Solberg:Now one thing I like to do on my days off is sit and drink coffee and watch the birds feed in the backyard. Oh, guys, I drank more than one cup of coffee just thinking, sitting and thinking and soaking in the goodness of the day. Then Thea called out, honey, could I get you to go to the store for groceries, please? My foot is hurting after I dropped that log on it yesterday as I straightened up our woodpile in the back. Oh, and please get the mail.
OK Solberg:Just a quick stop at the grocery store and go to the post office to get the mail and I won't bother you the rest of the day. I'll allow you to enjoy your day off after those two little tasks. Oh, guys, I smiled and said sure, sure, Sure. I can do that. Sometimes I like to an attack a project head on.
OK Solberg:I jumped up and headed out the door. I was thinking those two little chores. And when I return, you know what? You know what? I just might watch Thunderbolt and Lightfoot again.
OK Solberg:I'm always fond of that movie, and I've seen it more times than I care to count, but I still enjoy seeing it again when I have the time. See, it reminds me of my childhood, but that's for a later time. Let me continue the story of the time I prayed for patience. So I'm heading out the door expected to be gone for about, well, you know, 20 minutes after I get a few groceries at Albertsons and make a quick stop at the post office. Easy peasy, quick and easy.
OK Solberg:Not. I get to Albertsons and my lovely wife writes up a grocery list in sequential order. I kid you not. She knows what is in each aisle and she writes her list in that order. Very helpful.
OK Solberg:I'm getting more patient already. Well, I get my stuff. The cart isn't full, not even halfway full. And I pull in at the checkout line. I'm 3rd in line, checker 2's line. I would have been 4th in the line at checker #3.
OK Solberg:So I'm standing there looking at the magazines there next to the till, not really for interest, but to pass the time, you know. And I see Jane Fonda and Barbara Streisand on front cover of the People Magazine. You know, guys, they aren't spring chickens anymore. I look up and the lady at the tell is handing the clerk 14 lottery tickets to see if they won anything.
OK Solberg:Are you kidding me? 14. 14 tickets. Each one had to be scanned and the results reported to the lady at the till. Oh, it won't take long.
OK Solberg:There's #5 no winner. There's #6, she won a dollar. There's #7, I'm just smiling, saying a quiet prayer. Thank you, Lord, for giving me patience. The clerk gets her 14 lottery tickets scanned.
OK Solberg:Oh, by the way, she won $3 total. And then this lady puts her tickets back in her purse and she says, oh, oh, wait. I have a coupon for Van Camp's pork and beans to get 50¢ off. That clerk looks at the coupon and says, yes. Yes.
OK Solberg:That's 50¢ off alright. If you buy three or more cans, you only have one can. The lady smiles as she walks past me. I'll be right back. It won't take long.
OK Solberg:And down the aisle she runs while me and this other lady wait in line. Are you kidding me? She gets back with her 2 cans of Vancamps Pork & Beans, and out the door she goes. Now I'm behind a lady that doesn't have any lottery tickets, and she has no coupons. Praise the lord.
OK Solberg:But she uses a debit card that she runs 3 times, and the clerk kept saying it didn't go through. It it didn't go through. It still didn't go through. Then she fumbles in her purse to find her checkbook. Oh, I know it's here somewhere.
OK Solberg:She piles lip stick, pocket matches, a roll of lifesavers, a fingernail clipper up on the counter. Oh, here it is. My son, Herbie, gave me this checkbook cover. He lives in Arizona now. His wife is named Tammy, they have 3 children, Ruby, Barbie, and Tootsie.
OK Solberg:I was afraid she was gonna show the clerk pictures, but just then she says, do you have a pen? The nice young clerk hands her a pen. It looks like she's gonna start to write, but the pen is frozen in mid air. She says, and and what is today? The clerk says March 19.
OK Solberg:Oh, oh, sure. It's my best friend Hattie's birthday today. I'm gonna have to remember to call her. She and I graduated high school together, you know. I'd like to tell you when, but then you'd know my age.
OK Solberg:And she laughs like a chicken cackling after she laid a double yoked egg. She gets the date written down. She writes Albertsons in the neatest penmanship I've ever seen. It looks like calligraphy, but that hand was moving as slow as a melting glacier in the Swiss Alps. She got Albertsons written and then then she stops.
OK Solberg:And the total amount of my purchase is how much again? The clerk tells her, $43.37. Oh, the lady smiles. Would it be alright if I wrote it for 40 over? I wanna stop at Valley Drug and get Hattie a birthday present.
OK Solberg:The clerk nods her head and the transaction is finally complete. But now all the stuff has to go back into her purse and it's one at a time not by handfuls. Anyway anyway, I didn't say a word. I was really learning patience. I got my stuff, walked out the door, and headed to the post office.
OK Solberg:I got there and guys you'll never believe it. Not one parking space, not one. I drove around the block again and again and again 3 times. Not a park and play space anywhere. Now in the trips around the block, I saw people sitting in their car reading the mail that they just picked up out of their box smiling and not having a care in the world.
OK Solberg:Now I don't want to exaggerate, but when I got home my lovely wife looks at me and says, where you been? You just had to go to the store and post office. It couldn't have taken that long. I smiled and I didn't say a word, but I will tell you this, I'll never pray for patience again. Thy end.
OK Solberg:This is a fiction story. It didn't really happen. It really didn't happen, but it could have.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.