Addictions - strong and varied

**way2fractious** · 27th February 06, 11:21 AM

This weekend I kilted up and accompanied my wife to her jewelry making class at the local junior college. While she and others learned to tie pearls, I visited with the two people there selling their jewelry-making supplies. One man was also into lapidary (turning rocks into gems) and had his club's newsletter there. In it was a humorous ditty composed many years ago, and I took a few moments to copy it down.

If one substitutes the word "kilts" for "rocks" and rearranges some other imagery, it appears the addiction is the same. Maybe we all have _____ in our heads.

Wife’s Lament

Rocks in the bedroom, rocks in the hall,
Rocks in the garden, rocks in the wall.
Find ‘em in the coffee pot, find ‘em on the floor,
Stashed in the cupboards till I can’t close the door.
Haven’t found ‘em in the washer, nor yet in the bed;
But I wonder what it is in a Rockhound’s head?

(Ghost Sheet, March 2006, newsletter of the Mother Lode Mineral Society, Modesto, California. Above item republished from Ghost Sheet, April 1951)

**Nick** · 27th February 06, 11:41 AM

M grandpa was a rockhound, and he had a little bag in his rock shop with an instruction sheet in it. It read:

Rockhound Kit. Every time you find a rock, put a marble in its place. When you have lost all your marbles, you're a rockhound!

**auld argonian** · 27th February 06, 11:41 AM

So that would make us...kiltheads?

Sounds rather naughty....

Best

AA

**646guy** · 27th February 06, 12:36 PM

Hmmm....well if Green Bay can have their cheeseheads why not kilt heads...then again we'd probably have difficulties walking if we put the kilt on our heads and it covered our eyes...guess we'd have to reverse it a bit...

**pdcorlis** · 27th February 06, 01:34 PM

Wife's Lament

Kilts in the bedroom, kilts in the hall,
kilts in the kitchen, kilts on the wall.
Find ‘em in the closets, find ‘em on the floor,
They keep coming in the mail till I can’t close the door.
Haven’t found ‘em in the freezer, and they're banned from the bed;
But I wonder what it is that's in a kilthound’s head?

**mddock58** · 27th February 06, 01:36 PM

Pretty good Phil!

**way2fractious** · 27th February 06, 03:21 PM

Thanks, Phil,

Originally Posted by pdcorlis

Wife's Lament

Kilts in the bedroom, kilts in the hall...

I love it when people are creative; alas, I'm just not one of them.

Originally Posted by pdcorlis

...they're banned from the bed...

huh!? dang!!

**Southern Breeze** · 27th February 06, 03:33 PM

Phil, excellent poem!

**Pleater** · 27th February 06, 03:56 PM

In one of my other lives I use, teach, repair and service knitting machines - if you think kilts are addictive you should see the stuff I have accumulated - all the different machines, the heaps and bags and boxes of yarn, the shelves of accessories and patterns....

Then there are the electronically controlled versions which use dedicated software to design and then download the patterns and indicate the changes of yarn and the number of stitches and the settings/needle arrangement on the machine.

Kilts are just candy and chocolate - knitting machines are the real hard stuff of addiction.

**pdcorlis** · 27th February 06, 04:25 PM

Wife's Lament - take two...

Kilts in the dining room, kilts in the hall,
kilts in the kitchen, kilts on the wall.
Find ‘em in the closets, find ‘em on the floor,
They keep coming in the mail till I can’t close the door.
Haven’t found ‘em in the freezer, and they're banned from the bed;
Sometimes I have to wonder what's in my kilthound’s head?