Idlers vs lazy bums.....

Blowing leaves ‘n cleaning gutters on an almost sunny Sunday afternoon.........Boy! It don’t get much better, do it?
‘Less’n, of course, you have more tomorrows ahead of you than yesterdays behind you in which case, almost anything c’n be better than yardwork, housework, all that gotta do it t’get by work...
There’s an old Irish saying that “work is the curse of the drinking class”....I dunno what old Irishman said that but it’s a pretty sure bet that he was of a class known as ‘Idlers’....Idlers have lots more time on their hands than drunks, y’see....Drunks devote a lot of time ‘n tho’t to booze...the anticipation of the next drink, the regret of the last drink, the unsettled time inbetween drinks....it takes time ‘n effort t’be a drunk while Idlers.....well, the whole secret t’being a world-class Idler is t’do nothing at all....’n that’s all the effort it takes.....
Once upon a time I had aspirations of being an Idler....I just cudn’t make it stick somehow....I’d be idling really well....lost in a reverie ‘n something would come along ‘n I’d be off ‘n doing it....’n that kind’a defeats the whole purpose.....
To be a really good Idler, a world-class Idler, I s’poze... you’d have t’be born to it.....wanting t’be an Idler just ain’t enuff...for almost all of us, something’ll come along that you just feel like doing ‘n next thing y’know, you’re not idling, you’re busy doing something.....
It don’t have t’be anything really important, y’know....it c’n be something as simple as deciding to take a little walk, maybe go for a swim...maybe get sidetracked by a pretty girl.....maybe get sidetracked by an almost pretty girl or even by an ugly girl....anyways, the point is if you get sidetracked for almost any reason, you’re not a real Idler....you c’n still be a lazy bum but that don’t have the same cachet....gesundheit!