I always wondered why there were so many ads for gutter products in the newspaper.
Now, I know. Older people worry about leaf-clogged gutters the way younger people worry about student loans – which is to say, we think about them every day.
It’s funny how our worries shift as we age.
For example, I urged our 19-year-old son to come home from college for Easter so I could have an emissions test done on his truck in order to renew his tags.
In my mind I could see him getting pulled over by an Alabama highway patrolman and being cited for expired Tennessee tags: “Son, you ain’t from around here, are you?” I thought about this at least once a week.