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When the aggravations of chance trouble your

  • When the aggravations of chance trouble your soul do you turn to the master(s) of fate? Redouble your efforts, relinquish control, try a different approach?
  • Or do you hire Handsy the Elf to take care of life's little aggravations for you?
  • It was then, that I, the narrator, contemplated carefully, and pressed Multiple Choice E: None of the Above.
  • "And None of the Below, wouldn't you agree?" quipped my rather unfunny double as he sauntered out of our shared bathroom into the testing center. I had 43 more multiple-choice ques
  • tions. My double wasn't as furry as me which made me anxious. Q: Which sexual positions are acceptable after the 4th date? Tick 3 answers A. Up against a tree. B. Behind the librar
  • ian's desk. C. In a deep, deep self-dug hole. I had to admit, the first two were exciting, but the third gave me pause. Yes, she looked like a mole-rat as did I, but her canines
  • were really poorly trained. They were feisty little pointless dogs with no charm or redemptive qualities that dogs usually have. She and her twerpy little dogs needed to know the
  • true meaning of obedience training. The teacher bopped the student on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. "Your chihuahuas aren't the problem, now sit!" She student sat.
  • The teacher unrolled the newspaper and started reading it out loud. The war was coming and everyone felt that, one way or another. And everyone seemed to care more for themselves.
  • Except for a few who saw the coming turmoil as a chance to help others, and plant a seed for peace which would flower on the fallow fields of war.

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