Just Rambling Words

Preparations to make,
a Seder to prepare for.
Asked to set up ... for 172 no less.
I agreed.
But, I delegated as well.
I asked Troop #99 to set up -
     22 tables each with 8 chairs


Then was the time,
the head table to place.
Setting for 10 plus Elijah -
makes 12.
myTed said he'd help.
My smile wide, 
thinking help he would need,
I requested another.


Home from work
myTed is quite sore,
     from soccer of course,
tired and battered,
yet ready to go..
His plan simply put
move stage edges for height.


Yet on the other hand
the other mad, grumbled,
seemed angered and terse.
He rushed through the set-up,
he slammed up the tables
and taking a column
he burst it and bungled.


Is it better without him,
his anger and 'tude?
Would the mood have been higher
our spirits uplifted?
Would the job have been quicker,
the column been spared,
my best friend not walking
alone on the shore?


Volunteered for the set-up I did -
but needing to learn this:
whose help to implore,
and whose to ignore.