By James Lockhart
You be Careful!!!
A couple of weeks ago there was a bear spotted in downtown Poteau, Oklahoma. It roamed the streets for several days. Social media was flooded with videos and pictures of the bear walking down streets and back alleys. The problem with social media though is it tends to stay local, so some people don’t know the whole story. This was true of my mother in law. She lives up by Oklahoma City.
It didn’t take long and the memes started flooding LeFlore county social media accounts. Most local businesses had a meme of some sort featuring the bear doing everything from cutting hair in a barber shop to working in the mechanic shop or helping a police officer.
My daughter has a chiropractor clinic, so she posted a meme of a bear laying on her chiropractor table and her adjusting its back. Most everyone knew she was joking about working on a bear. Most everyone knew the backstory of a bear in Poteau and all of the local businesses creating these memes.
My mother in law, Ruth well, she didn’t know about any of the memes, she thought her granddaughter really was adjusting a bear in her chiropractic clinic. She told Hope, “you be careful working on that bear.”
My wife, son and daughter have debated telling grandma Ruth this was a joke, but it’s awfully funny on the other hand, so I don’t think anyone has told her.
Usually it’s the son in laws that worry Ruth. I’ve been bucked off horses, the other son in law of the family is just plain unlucky, he’s fell off the ladder, wrecked his car, the list goes on and on. I’ve secretly enjoyed not being the one in the family everyone talks about for a few weeks. The old church gossip type of thing, “Did you hear what happened to so and so?”
I’ve caught myself laughing a time or two over this bear meme and my mother in law worrying about Hope. I guess I’m easily entertained. You gotta love a grandma that worries over her grandkids, that’s a special kind of love.
James Lockhart lives near the Kiamichi mountains in southeast Oklahoma. He writes cowboy stories and fools with cows and horses.
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