Ever since their acquaintances with him, all Keithlys but one have consistently underestimated the character and intellectual abilities of a gentleman known herein only as Mr. O (but who will probably someday be known by such titles as “That Genius,” “The inventor of the Hover Car,” “The Solver of Cold Fusion,” “He who Ended World Hunger,” “The Curer of Cancer" and “His Majesty”).
During high school, it was essentially axiomatic to the clan that his mental challenges and chronic laziness would prevent him from graduating therefrom. When he won the stake scripture mastery competition and graduated a week later, the shocked clan granted him the small victory but predicted that he would never serve a full time mission--that if he somehow made it into the field he would not last more than a few months. After Mr. O returned from serving an honorable, full-time mission, this forecast was forgotten and it became fashionable in Keithly circles to estimate his fate as that of an auto mechanic or perhaps a lifetime teller at Wells Fargo, who would remain single.
Mr. O recently graduated from college with a degree in Biochemistry and will begin a Ph.D. program in the fall, where he will conduct research and teach university-level chemistry classes. He is happily married and has a beautiful baby daughter. When asked to comment, a Keithly who spoke on the condition of anonymity last week expressed a desire to place a wager that soon-to-be Dr. O will be discovered in his obvious cheating to get accepted into his Ph.D. program and end up "in prison" since he is, after all, a "young idiot," "canned stupidity" and a "punk like Al Gore."
During high school, it was essentially axiomatic to the clan that his mental challenges and chronic laziness would prevent him from graduating therefrom. When he won the stake scripture mastery competition and graduated a week later, the shocked clan granted him the small victory but predicted that he would never serve a full time mission--that if he somehow made it into the field he would not last more than a few months. After Mr. O returned from serving an honorable, full-time mission, this forecast was forgotten and it became fashionable in Keithly circles to estimate his fate as that of an auto mechanic or perhaps a lifetime teller at Wells Fargo, who would remain single.
Mr. O recently graduated from college with a degree in Biochemistry and will begin a Ph.D. program in the fall, where he will conduct research and teach university-level chemistry classes. He is happily married and has a beautiful baby daughter. When asked to comment, a Keithly who spoke on the condition of anonymity last week expressed a desire to place a wager that soon-to-be Dr. O will be discovered in his obvious cheating to get accepted into his Ph.D. program and end up "in prison" since he is, after all, a "young idiot," "canned stupidity" and a "punk like Al Gore."
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