I Can't Seem to Make Ends-Meat

The Recipe for Ends-Meat

Now I had mentioned before how I can miss simple things in life. Well, while still in grade school I remembered hearing a phrase, “Can’t make ends-meat”. Now once I heard the phrase I began looking for this substance and began asking myself questions like, “What kind of animal does this meat come from?” “What part of the animal does this come from?” and “What store sells this meat because I can’t find it anywhere?” Well, this went on for a number of years and I had never thought about discussing this simple phrase with others until I was in College.

I was in my sophomore year in college and taking micro-economics. It was in this course that my instructor had drawn on the chalkboard two frayed pieces of rope that were not connected and then ask the class if anyone could tell him what that meant. Someone told him that it represented the phrase, “Can’t make ends-meet”. It was at that moment when I began to laugh hysterically out loud and very uncontrollably. My instructor looked at me strangely and asked me to share with the class why I thought his drawing was so funny. Once I calmed down and explained my misconception of the phrase, the entire class was laughing. For about 20 minutes it was like comedy central. I’m glad I was able to make people laugh at my misunderstandings, but, I now know what end’s meat is. It is amazing how the simple things in life can be so easy to over look. All this time I was trying to figure out what type of animal did end’s meat come from. Then I wondered what part of the animal could this possibly come from? The meaning never really hit me until that night. I was only 26 years old when I finally found the true meaning…better late than never I always say.

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