The Grouchy Geezer has reached the stage of life when it is well nigh impossible for me to stay up past the hour of 10 each evening. Even when I don't go to bed by that hour, I can usually be found splayed out in my recliner, sound asleep, snoring loudly, while the local 10 o'clock newscaster is busy in the background describing the havoc that has taken place in the nearest city during the day and early evening. (Come to think of it, sleep is probably the best antidote for the quality of the news these days.) There was a time when the gg could stay awake and suffer through the news just to be able to watch and listen to my favorite late night comic. For me that was David Letterman. Not even close. I loved Letterman's Top 10s. He had a Top 10 for just about every topic one could think of. And they would get progressively funnier the closer he counted down to No. 1. The people who wrote for the David Letterman show were brilliant. I guess they still are. I think if I had not become by default a professional curmudgeon, I would have enjoyed being a writer on that show. Thinking about David Letterman has got the gg to pondering whether perhaps I should come up with a Top 10 of my own. Everyone has a Top 10 list of something -- why not the Grouchy Geezer. After an exceedingly short deliberation, I have decided to do just that: I am hereby announcing that I will soon, in the very near future, produce a Top 10 list of things that irritate me the most -- things that do the most honor to the name Grouchy Geezer. Most things on the list will not be a surprise. All you have to do is look back through the years at my postings. The hardest thing for me will be ranking them in Top 10 order. To keep it interesting, I'll try to come up with a surprise or two. If you, the readers, have any suggestions of your own from your own Top 10 lists, by all means send them to the gg and I might consider them for my own list. Stay tuned!
gg
