It was a long weekend. Monday was a public holiday so everyone took Friday off as well. Adriana knew with the certitude of long experience that with everything shut for the weekend things in her life would go wrong. The freezer would die, the shower nozzle would jam, the dog’s ears would get infected, the internet would go down, young Charlie would trip and break a finger. All these “emergencies” cost twice the amount (or more) to get attended to on a long weekend.
Yes, Adriana was what some people called a pessimist. Her friends urged her to take a more positive approach to life. “What if you looked on the bright side?” asked Hilda.
“You read too much and live in a world of fiction, Adriana,” said Ivan.
“Buck out of it, Adriana,” said Gwenda. “It’s negative, negative, negative.”
“I can’t help it,” said Adriana. “I just know during this long weekend that everything will go wrong. The freezer will die, the shower nozzle will jam, the dog’s ears will get infected, the internet will go down, young Charlie will trip and break a finger.”
But, miracle of miracles! None of this happened because first thing in the morning Adriana was in a car crash on the way to get milk from the corner shop.
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, your dark humor never fails to give me a laugh! Thank you for putting some light out in the world. I needed it today. 😀
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Thanks Lucy. Happy to have cheered your day!
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I’m glad she didn’t crash on the way back. The milk would have spoiled.
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That would have been enough to make her milk curdle.
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If only Adriana was a vegan. Not only would she not have needed milk but she’d probably have had a Dancalonator, which would have helped her to deal with a lot of the other issues in her life.
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That’s possibly true, but you have to remember that the milk she was going to buy wasn’t mammal milk – it was dancalonator milk, and that should’ve made all the difference.
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I suppose that’s why it happened on the way to the store then. It’s a basic life lesson that everyone should know by now – never run out of dancalonator milk.
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You’ve just created a catchy bumper sticker.
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I’d buy a bumper sticker like that.
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Poor Adriana. She was right, something bad did happen. Being unexpected makes it all the worse.
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Sometimes it pays not to know the future!
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Adriana collided with a truck carrying Parsley stakes…she hurt like Billy-O!
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Who said distance learning doesn’t work? You’re an inspiration Max to all those students whose schools haven’t opened.
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Thank you very much professor…see I’m listening!
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I think if there was a 60s/70s local rock concert you’d run out of the digital classroom like Billy-O.
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Well you may have me on that one…but I’d blog about it later so the professor could read it…everyone wins
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Who’s Billy-O?
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Aristotle is said to have said that fatal crashes are more than the sum of pessimistic prophecies.
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Here was a very clever man then!
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Adriana had reason to be a pessimist, pity she wasted it on the wrong things….
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I don’t think (in the real) that I know a true pessimist!
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