My Dear Rotary Family,

Late one night our very own Jack Garbo was speeding down the empty road. A cop sees him go flying past so chases him and pulls him over. The cop goes up to the car and when Jack rolls down the window, he asks, “Are you aware of how fast you were going, sir?” Jack replies, “Yes I am. I’m trying to escape a robbery I got involved in.”  The cop looks at him disbelievingly and asks him, “Were you the one being robbed, sir?”  Jack casually replies, “Oh no, I was the one who committed the robbery. I was escaping.”  The cop is shocked and surprised that the Jack admitted this so freely. He says, “So you’re telling me you were speeding…AND committed a robbery?”  “Oh yes,” replied Jack calmly. “I have all the loot in the back.”  The cop is now starting to get angry and says, “Sir, I’m afraid you have to come with me” as he reaches into the window to take the car keys out of the ignition.  Jack shouts, “Don’t do that! I’m afraid that you’ll find the gun in my glove compartment!” At this the cop pulls his hand out of the window and says, “Wait here” as he returns to his car and calls for backup.

Soon there are cars, cops and helicopters all over, everywhere you look. Then Jack is quickly dragged out of his car, handcuffed, and taken towards a cop car.  However, just before Jack is put in the car and taken away, a cop walks up to him and says, while pointing at the cop who pulled him over, “Sir, this officer tells us that you had committed a robbery, had stolen loot in the trunk of your car, and had a loaded gun in your glove compartment. However, we didn’t find any of these things in your car.” Jack replies “I bet he said I was speeding too”. Only attorney…

 

As we end the dog days of summer it comes to mind why the dog days?  For many, the “dog days,” evoke those summer days that are so devastatingly hot that even dogs would lie around on the asphalt, panting. But originally, the phrase had nothing to do with dogs, or even with the lazy days of summer. Instead, the dog days refer to Sirius, the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, which means “big dog” in Latin and is said to represent one of Orion’s hunting dogs.

 

To the Greeks and Romans, the “dog days” occurred around the time Sirius appears to rise alongside the sun, in late July in the Northern Hemisphere. They believed the heat from the two stars combined is what made these days the hottest of the year, a period that could bring fever or even catastrophe. Even with everything happening, kind of makes you go” hmmm.” 

 

May God Bless this club and its membership and may He bless the United States and Texas.  Be safe!