November 20, 2014: Del Rio News-Herald * Letter to the Editor * A Thanksgiving Tall Tale
Letter to the Editor,
A THANKSGIVING Tall Tale
Mr. Hanks is a conservative and Mr. Givin is
a liberal.
They live in the small border town of Riverville, Texas.
They live
across the street from each other; Mr. Hanks on the South side of the street
and Mr. Givin on the North side of the street.
They are neighbors but they are
not the least bit neighborly.
Elections are the worst time of the year for the neighborhood.
Their front lawns are strewn with a conglomeration of campaign signs.
Mr. Hanks
has all the Republican candidates’ signs and Mr. Givin has all the Democratic
candidates’ signs.
As you would expect their cars are also covered with the
candidates’ stickers.
Mr. Hanks drives a large, red SUV and Mr. Givin drives a
small, blue hybrid.
As soon as Mr. Hanks gets home from work he sits down to
watch FOX NEWS until it’s time to go to bed.
As soon as Mr. Givin gets home
from work he sits down to watch MSNBC until it’s time to go to bed.
Mr. Hanks has a beautiful daughter named Reagan and Mr. Givin has a
handsome son named Kennedy.
And as it so happens in life, Reagan Hanks and
Kennedy Givin fell in love and got married in a June wedding.
Mr. Hanks told
his daughter, “Why couldn’t you have married a nice conservative Republican young
man?”
Mr. Givin told his son, “Why couldn’t you have married a nice liberal
Democratic young woman?”
This is the first year that both families will be celebrating THANKSGIVING
Day together.
THANKSGIVING Lunch will be at the Hanks residence and THANKSGIVING
Dinner will be at the Givin residence.
Politics is usually a topic not
discussed by most people in polite company; but in this particular family it is
strictly forbidden with the consequence of being eschewed and ostracized forever.
Mr. Hanks and Mr. Givin both love their families and now they also want to
enjoy their new extended family, because they are thinking that they can
hopefully influence their grandchildren.
Mr. Hanks and Mr. Givin weren’t even allowed to watch the THANKSGIVING
Day football game because the Washington Redskins, as Mr. Hanks calls them, or the
Washington Skins, as Mr. Givin calls them, were playing; and the family knew
the problems that would cause.
They sat on opposite ends of the table; Mr. Hanks
had the turkey right wing and Mr. Givin had the turkey left wing.
I am happy to report that so far, so good, the Hanks - Givin families
survived their first THANKSGIVING Day together.
Let’s see how they do with CHRISTMAS
Lunch and CHRISTMAS Dinner.
Politics aside,
Happy THANKSGIVING!
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
