How to Walk Like an Egyptian

Okay, it made me laugh so I thought I’d share.

I was minding my own business, wearing my own mask and socially doing my own distancing while standing in line at the grocery store and someone asks — “Ummm, is that the Bangles you’re whistling?”

This was Sunday afternoon.

For some unknown and strange reason, I, a 47-year-old grown-ass black man was whistling, ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’ in public, in the middle of a pandemic.

My serotonin must have been on twelve.

But it got me to thinking.

It must’ve been better to ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ than it was to actually be an Egyptian back in the Bible days.

Ancient Egyptian #1: “Man, it’s hot as Duat out here.”
Ancient Egyptian #2: “I know, I know. What are you up to today?”
#1: “Building a pyramid. You?”
#2: “Same.”
#1: “Hey, did you go to Ammon’s burial ceremony?”
#2: “No, I missed it. My son Gamal got bit by a rattlesnake again.”
#1: “That sucks. Ammon’s burial was normal, except the sarcophagus turned out to be too small.”
#2: “What did you do?”
#1 “Hauled some more rocks, made it bigger.”
#2: “Right.”
#1: “Say, that’s a nasty looking cut on your leg.”
#2: “Yeah, got this falling off a sphinx.”
#1: “Really? You wrapped some meat around it?”
#2: “Yup, got it all wrapped up in bloody meat and it healed…