Ben, our navigator/driver on the road, had a birthday last week. I’d tell you his age, but Ben doesn’t “age” in the traditional sense. In fact, on February 18 every year, Ben doesn’t get a year older… February 18 gets a year Ben’r. Yeah, think about that one.
Anyhoo, my wife Jodi and I were trying to decide what to get Ben for his big day, and we couldn’t get past the Utilikilt idea. Utilikilts ARE Ben. Nobody rocks ‘em harder.
Don’t you dare call Ben’s pant-substitute a skirt, though. That there is a kilt, with utility-like overtones (that’s probably how they came up with the name).
While Ben gets to make a fashionable choice rooted in his Scottish heritage when getting dressed in the morning, there are millions of kids in America who don’t have that luxury. When we visited youth shelters along our route, we heard from employees that clean clothes (in addition to bedding) were what kids needed most when they first arrived. $25 can go a long way in clothing a homeless teen. Can you help? How ’bout right now?
Please head to http://www.runtellmanrun.com/donate.
Happy B-Day, Ben.
SHABAMBO!
-Tellman
Ben, rockin' his Utilikilt in Pottsville, PA.
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Hi Gang,
How do we get a notice of expected route. I would like to meet up with you all at some point. My shedule is alway changing, as is yours. Is there anyway to know maybe a projection of 2-o3 weeks w/1wk follow-up.??
Blessings to you and yours in Love and LIGHT
g
Thanks guys for the smile in an otherwise pooey filled day.
DJ
Tellman: Ben’s skirt (kilt) looks great, however he needs the socks to go with it, you know – argyle knee high with tassels on each side!!!!!
Seriously, I hope you are doing well with your run – I’m sure you are and having fun besides.
I miss your daily emails tho.
Warm regards,
Judie Peltz
jpeltz@q.com
Ben rockin’ a utilikilt with a “Scottish Heritage Mindset” , reads as respect for ancestreal tradition . A doctor rockin’ a labcoat while entering the treatmentroom smiling sheepishly putting on a rubbber glove , requesting that you drop your pants turn your head and cough reads…!? A 250 lb linebacker who seems to be enjoying emincely slapping his teammates on the rearend , including the waterboy reads…!? Two seemingly intelligent males who enjoy checking each others prostrates like dogs in heat reads…!? Somehow in this bizzare chaotic episode of human existence , we’re really going to have to pray unceasingly hard to find grounds for ” unity ‘n’ diversity “, for the worlds’ sake , amen…!? To our now generation , Stay Frosty !
Benny, Benny, Benny, you are a braver man than I Ben. Several thoughts come rushing to the frontal brain pan. All are disturbing!
The first, simply pops up! As it is formulating, I immediately attempt to halt it in it’s track, but a thought is hard to stop when the synapses are firing: I think about the old cliche: What does a Scotsman wear under his Kil…….The thought is so disturbing, I try to think about beautiful women, but it’s too late. Another disturbing thought pops in to my mind:
What does someone think of if “Ben asks the following general question to no one in particular” “Does anyone else in the room feel a breeze”??
Than through excreta of the mind, another thought races in: What do they call a half smoked cigarette in England? A half a fag!
Sorry Ben I gotta get out of here. Your kilt is punishing me!! What ever you do-Do not wear that kilt and run through the ghetto! You may be shot at!! If the small children of the ghetto see you running with your kilt on, the small children will break and run away from such a sight. The adults, seeing you running with your kilt on, may erroneously think you are chasing their little boys, and open up on you with their AKs! It could get very ugly Ben.
I cannot stand any more of these thoughts. There is only one thing left to say to you Ben—-HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, YOU CRAZY SCOTSMAN!!! lol bob
TELLMAN,
I WOULD LOVE TO HELP BUT I AM IN REALLY BAD SHAPE. I GOT ALOT OF PROBLEMS. I DON’T HAVE A CAR TO DRIVE, AND I DON’T GET TO SEE MY DOCTORS LIKE I SUPPOSE TOO. I HADN’T WENT TO MY CANCER DOCTOR. I MISS APPOINTMENTS. I OWE MONEY ON MY UNTILITY, LIGHT BILL IS OVER $500.00 AND I ONLY GET $674.00 A MONTH. I AM SO STRESS OUT. I DON’T HAVE ANYONE TO HELP ME. I AM ALONE. ITS REALLY HARD OUT IN THIS WORLD. IT’S RAINING IN MY HOUSE. AND I GOT MOLD EVERYWHERE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO DO. I FEEL LIKE I AM GOING TO FALL APART. I AM ON HERE TRYING TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE MONEY SO I CAN PAY MY BILLS. PLEASE PRAY FOR ME. THIS HOME IS REALLY BAD. I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT LATER. IF I COULD HELP YOU I REALLY WOULD. AS OF NOW I DON’T WHICH WAY TO GO. MY DAUGHTER’S CAR IS BROKE DOWN HER TRAMISSION, GONE, SHE DON’T HAVE A RIDE. SO WE ARE IN BAD SHAPE. GOD PLEASE HELP ME. I DON’T KNOW WHICAH WAY TO TURN. I AM FALLING APART. IF I WOULD EVER BECOME RICH, I WOULD DO JUST LIKE YOU ARE DOING. BUT I CAN’T EVEN HELP MY SELF AND I AM SICK. I GOT SICK WITH A COLD AND MY DOCTOR TOLD ME I BETTER GET IN THERE AND I HAD TO BEG FOR A RIDE, AND SINCE CANCER I HAVE HAD TO TAKE ALOT OF DIFFERNET VITAMINS AND I AM WEAK STILL. PRAY FOR ME PLEASE.
cATHY