(Another story today! I shall post music over the weekend if I can get myself organized – which I’m finding harder to do by the day! I’ve got so many irons in the fire that life is a dog’s breakfast.)
We all knew that Great Uncle Menzies was “comfortable” but we never knew how comfortable. He lived a fairly ascetic life. His favourite saying was “One doesn’t need to be rich; all one needs is enough to be secure.”
When he died we were asked if we would contest the will – we were after all his only relatives and he had left everything to the Mount Ararat Ark of the Flood Church. Not that it would come to much, and Great Uncle Menzies was a lovely man so why ruin his generosity after he’s dead?
Yesterday the Mount Ararat Ark of the Flood Church announced they were building a multi-storey skyscraper in downtown New York. Goodness, they must’ve run into some money.
The narrator doesn’t sound like he hates himself for not contesting the will like many others in your stories. Maybe he’s into megachurches and the prosperity gospel. Some people run into debt hoping that the ‘seed they plant will yield fruit.’
LikeLiked by 2 people
I nearly made the man (narrator) even nicer but thought enough is enough!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I hope the skyscraper building is secure.
LikeLiked by 1 person
A couple of guy ropes should do the trick
LikeLiked by 1 person
There is a nice new building the descendants can take over! Imagine the income!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Reminds me of my house!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Uncle Menzie sounds like a really smart guy.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I share his genes
LikeLiked by 1 person
They must be really big for you both to fit in them!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Ha! As long as he belts up.
LikeLiked by 1 person
May Great Uncle Menzies rot in Hell!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Agreed!
LikeLike
You know, whenever any Ark of the Flood church build a really tall building it should probably make us all a little uncomfortable.
LikeLiked by 1 person
LOL
LikeLike