Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Bad day
Every day can't be a crowd pleaser, but there are times when life's slings and arrows become too much to bear. My day usually begins with a cup of coffee and a relaxed perusal of my newspaper, the Gwinnett Daily Post, of course.
Sometimes the perusal is not so relaxed, especially when some letter writer is
launching a negative response to one of my letters. To-day, however, was different in that there WAS no newspaper to peruse at all. My wife had inadvertantly thrown it in the trash can, thinking that I had already read it. To
make matters worse and retrieval impossible, she had thrown garbage on top of it. Good grief, I thought, now I'll never know if my last letter made todays column.
To sooth my savage breast ,I went out and bought a jelly do-nut (with frosting) to have with my coffee and try to get over my disappointment. After all, life can have its meaner moments. Well, I proceeded to set my do-nut on the table and
went to pour myself a cup of coffee. Imagine my shock to discover when I sat down to enjoy my treat ,that my do-nut was gone. The first thing I did, what any dog owner would do, was to seek out my 90 pound black lab. I found him under the table looking up at me with his innocent brown eyes. The game was up for him the moment I spotted jelly dripping from his jowls and frosting hanging from his whiskers. So there you have it, my day lay in ruins. Sure, the world is fraught with misfortune and bad luck, but there are times when it's the little things that take you down. Anybody who has ever lusted after a jelly do-nut (with frosting) to
accompany the perusal of his favorite newspaper, the Gwinnett Daily Post, of course, will understand what I mean.
Shalom
George Morin
Auburn
Sometimes the perusal is not so relaxed, especially when some letter writer is
launching a negative response to one of my letters. To-day, however, was different in that there WAS no newspaper to peruse at all. My wife had inadvertantly thrown it in the trash can, thinking that I had already read it. To
make matters worse and retrieval impossible, she had thrown garbage on top of it. Good grief, I thought, now I'll never know if my last letter made todays column.
To sooth my savage breast ,I went out and bought a jelly do-nut (with frosting) to have with my coffee and try to get over my disappointment. After all, life can have its meaner moments. Well, I proceeded to set my do-nut on the table and
went to pour myself a cup of coffee. Imagine my shock to discover when I sat down to enjoy my treat ,that my do-nut was gone. The first thing I did, what any dog owner would do, was to seek out my 90 pound black lab. I found him under the table looking up at me with his innocent brown eyes. The game was up for him the moment I spotted jelly dripping from his jowls and frosting hanging from his whiskers. So there you have it, my day lay in ruins. Sure, the world is fraught with misfortune and bad luck, but there are times when it's the little things that take you down. Anybody who has ever lusted after a jelly do-nut (with frosting) to
accompany the perusal of his favorite newspaper, the Gwinnett Daily Post, of course, will understand what I mean.
Shalom
George Morin
Auburn
