An Aggravating Exchange of Old Cliche's

Upon their parting each commenced to launching old cliche's, takin’ turns at tossin’ well-used comments back and forth. Zeroed in on Waco, Rowdy started walkin’ south...while - bound for home in Butte, Montana - Jethro headed north. “See you around,” Rowdy curtly quipped to break the ice. “Not unless you see me first,” was Jethro’s barbed reply! “That don’t really make no sense,” Rowdy fired back, to which he got a - “Never look a gift horse in the eye!” “You mean MOUTH,” Rowdy roared, ya’ simple-minded dweeb...all them years of schoolin’ and ya’ still make dumb mistakes. You’re twice the size you oughta be ‘cause -- like the pastry cook who’s gained his weight by sampling virtually everything he bakes -- “You ain’t passed a drive-through rest’rant - far as I recall - at which you haven’t dropped, I swear, at least a hundred bucks Every day since we first met!” “Well...like the saying goes,” Jethro snapped… “what’s good for geese is also good for ducks!” Nearly out of earshot, Rowdy hollered, “Holy crap...you’ve boogered up another one...that isn’t how it goes!” But Jethro couldn’t hear him as he countered with his fav’rite, that being --- “As the twig is bent --- so the flower grows!” It’s best - believe me - Rowdy hadn’t heard his final effort...adages were sacred to the fella headed south, And had they still been side by side, ain't no doubt about it - Rowdy would o’ blew his cool and boogered Jethro’s mouth!