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If you put things back where they belong, you won’t have to look for them next time you need them.
When you know what your weakness is, just like the clutch, or the oil leak, you can work around that weakness.
“That’s just his way of coping, dear,” Emma told her softly. “Billy has always had to ride hard on his anger. One of his main failings is that when he allows himself to get mad, he’s ‘mad all over’, as my grandmother used to say. He’s mad, and he can’t control himself. He knows that. So he keeps himself bottled up. I’m afraid one day that will do him more harm than good.” “What do you mean?” Rhonda asked. “Oh, I don’t mean he’ll hurt anyone,” Emma assured her at once. “But bottling all that anger up inside isn’t healthy. It’s hard on the system. Something else my grandma used to say,” she
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“How?” “Well, it can cause health problems. Stress causes all kinds of problems, honey. Heart disease, stroke, that kind of thing. Billy’s young, and healthy as a horse, so I doubt it’s hurting him right now. But as he gets older, it will, I’m afraid. He has to learn to find an outlet for all that.”
“Got to be in control,”
“It’s just. . .I make. . .I have to concentrate. If I don’t, I lose my way, sometimes. I get caught up in a circle, and I can’t git out of it.” “Start thinking about one thing, and it leads to another,” Pete nodded. Billy looked at him again.
