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Everyone has their million dollar idea, just

  • Everyone has their million dollar idea, just most people don't act on it. Mine was different flavors of floss. You know, cherry, orange, chocolate soufflé. I got the idea when I wa
  • s flossing and I grew bored. That's when I got my idea for multi-flavored floss, preferably orange flavor. I would have rushed to the patent company, except I was six.
  • I tried dressing in a business suit and a fake mustache, but my disguise didn't fool the receptionist. Somehow I had to get my floss to the boss.
  • So I snuck behind the receptionist and used my floss to choke her ninja style. After showing my boss the new floss he was impressed with its strength and durability. The phone rang
  • forever until someone finally answered it. Wrong number. My boss eyed this power floss I'd used. He'd had a popcorn husk jammed in his gums since he saw Short Circuit. This was
  • office politics at its worst. He said, "Give it," which meant I had to. My boss power flossed under his braces, exorcising those popcorn demons. He was ready for Short Circuit 2
  • but it would never come." He had to settle for reruns of Lucille Ball's I Love Lucy. How to escape this office hell? "I know," he lit up! "I'll
  • Smash the tellie to smithereens and turn on the radio instead." This meant listening to the overnight talk shows and hearing some good jokes. Laughter was the best medicine of all.
  • But for now I will stare at this animated .gif of Hermione Granger clapping while I listen to the Usher suite by Ghost Quartet. That it was Emma that landed before me is neither
  • here nor there, but both. For Emma is everywhere, her essence on the drapery, her dried tears on the carpet. A walk in the garden is a walk in her heart. We are all Emma. You too.
Started
2014-02-04 19:31:28
Finished
2016-09-29 14:47:23

1 Comments

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    Rebbie Sep 29 2016 @ 14:52

    Yay! I get to be Emma!

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