Sunday, October 27, 2024

Side Notes and Other Things

 

Then suddenly playtime was over

The alligator bit down on her arm.  The pain was excruciating and then some.  Just a moment before he dragged her under the water, she took a big gulp of air.  She thought if she could play dead long enough, the thing would let go of her arm.

This was a lesson in how to build a spoiler-alert into the title of your story.

 

Side note: 1

    Going down with the ship doesn’t make you a hero.  It only makes you dead.

 

Side note: 2

    Being the last to know simply means you’re not the friend you thought you were.

 

Side note: 3

    Whether or not you leave food on your plate has no effect on the starving children overseas.

 

Side note: 4

    Taking one for the team.  The team doesn’t care, if they did, they wouldn’t have put you in that position.

 

Side note: 5

    Each and every time someone says, “Here, smell this, or here, taste this.”  Just go ahead and assume it’s bad.

 

Side note: 6

    The headlines on the internet are designed to make you click on them.  If the story was real, you would have already heard about it.

 

Side note: 7

    Stay out of the ocean and you won’t be attacked by a shark.  To avoid earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, raging fires, floods and tornadoes, move someplace else.

 

And finally:

    Never look to a blog for sound advice.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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