(I had another story scheduled for today but have taken it down because it was about contemporary events and at present they are making me irrational. So I wrote another).
Salathiel Twigg woke up that morning and wasn’t quite sure how to fill in his day. Some days would fill in themselves; other days crawled on like they would never end. But today would not be a crawl-along day; it was going to be one of consequence.
After he showered and dressed (he always did that in the same boring order) he had breakfast. There was a cold sausage in the fridge left over from the previous day’s dinner. He microwaved it (just to take the chill off) and had it with a slice of buttered toast. He needed to go shopping for groceries and one of the things needed was tomato sauce. However, for the time being, he ate the unchilled sausage without any tomato sauce.
He could have used pickle because he had an unopened jar of chilli pickle in his pantry but he couldn’t get the lid off, and the get-the-lid-off-a-jar contraption was in a drawer for some reason in another room. So he couldn’t be bothered getting it and ate the sausage just as it was.
After that fairly run-of-the-mill opening, the day could only get better. And hopefully it did. After breakfast, he left his home to join his neighbours who were fighting the invading Russians. He had never done anything like that before and was more than a bit scared.
Weave a Web 
Very unexpected story!
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Thanks. I wanted to show how ordinary people were!
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I’m still trying to get my head around it.
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It’s hard to find rational words for blogging right now. I think you did very well. Even without tomato sauce, Salathiel and his countrymen seem to me completely extraordinary.
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Yes – I’d be heading for the Polish Border disguised as an old lady.
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Well, I doubt that, but I am thankful most of the world is not in the position to find that out about ourselves. At least not for now.
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Here Here!
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Just a run-of-the-mill fellow.
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Pretty ordinary!
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It’s a sad, but inevitable eventuality of a US Presidency which has always been about splintering than bonding the West.
Those people fighting in Ukraine are heroes. My son and I said if we were Ukranians we would fight.
Former heavyweight boxing champ Klitschko and his brother have vowed to fight for Ukraine. Legends.
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I agree. I would fight too, but you’d have to show me which end of the gun is the pointy bit.
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good luck to those who are just like Salathiel in Ukraine…
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Agreed!
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Good job! Get ’em, Sal!
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Of course, Salathiel Twigg doesn’t sound much like a Ukrainian name!
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Well, over here we always use the excuse that they messed up the great-grandfather’s name at Ellis Island. But you know that names come from a lot of different sources. Or perhaps he was a naturalized Ukrainian citizen.
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That’s why there are so many Jewish Goodman’s in the States! They had impossible names and the register wrote down he was a “Goodman”.
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lol. Yes, it was pretty bad sometimes. I heard the story of an owner of a Chinese Laundry with the name, “Joe Swidersky’s Chinese Laundry.” He had been behind Joe in the line and when they asked him his name he said, “Sam Ting.” That’s what I heard somewhere anyway…
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I like to mix it up sometimes by dressing first and showering second. Maybe Salathiel should give it a shot sometime.
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It certainly saves on the laundry costs.
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Sure does.
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The world news is making me nervous and anxious, but this is how I envision the Ukrainians dealing with their lives. Prayers on wings to all of them.
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Sgtrrf. Oh – that word was “Agreed” typed out in the dark!!
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A wonderful name ‘Salathiel Twigg’, in the unexpectedness of the story you’ve captured the shock many of us are feeling at current events.
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Yes – it is shocking. Quite unbelievable.
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