Elephants can’t jump. Every other mammal can.

While that may make you stop and think, isn’t it a little obvious? My sister is more than 400 pounds and she can’t jump either. But I love her.  She’s really the sweetest person. And she can still bust a move on the dance floor. Good thing if she doesn’t jump then.

My sister is also pretty smart about money. She saw our mother struggle with the bills when we were growing up, and that was tough on all of us. It was hard to do without, but even harder to endure the stress. We all work, we work hard. Two jobs usually. But sometimes there are emergencies and at first there ain’t nothing you can do about it. But you find a way. My sister found a way to get emergency money for things, like the time she had to go help her daughter in Chicago. She was in the hospital and needed help getting back in her home. So my sister went and got a car title loan to pay for her airfare there.  It was $320, and her car was worth that at Car Title Loans in Forestdale. They got her that money the next day, in time for her to get to Chicago in time.

Elephants know how to dance too. They just don’t do it with money like my sister.

My bro Dwayne told me the cigarette lighter was invented before the match. Man, that’s messed up.

It makes you wonder about all the other things that happen backwards. Like how my mother paid for her car repairs. She used her car to pay for the mechanic.  No lie! She had about $1200 on an estimate and not enough money to pay for it. But she needed that car - she drives five days a week to Gardendale for her job. So unless she got it fixed, she wasn’t going to work.

My sister came up with the fix. She is on the internet all day and night, so she found this company that loans you money for the value of your car. She went to Car Title Loans in Bessemer. They gave her the money the next day.  Maybe not so messed up if it works.