What Not To Say To Your Wife
The Boy And The Duck • Fiction? • If I Was Super Smarter
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What Not To Say To Your Wife
“If you’re going to get all hysterical,
at least control your emotions.”
Do not say that!
Story
The Boy And The Duck
Once there was a duck who swam in a pond by the home of a little boy. Every day the boy would go down to the pond and look for the duck. The duck was always there. It would swim over near the shore, and the boy would throw pieces of bread in the pond. The duck eagerly ate the bread and then swam away.
The boy was happy.
Then one day, the duck didn’t show up. It didn’t show up the next day either. Or the next. Eventually, the boy stopped looking.
The boy grew up and moved away. He got a job in the big city. He worked hard, got married, and raised a family. He got older, and his children had children. He retired and moved out to the country and bought a house near a pond.
One day his grandson visited him. The old man gave his grandson a piece of bread and told him to go stand by the pond. So he did.
The grandson saw something swimming toward him. It was a duck. So he tore up the bread and threw pieces out to the duck. The duck eagerly ate the bread and then swam away.
The old man was happy.
Deep Truths
Fiction?
Hardly
I don’t want to live in a world where Winnie-the-Pooh is not real.
Just because it’s fiction doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Other Stories
If I Was Super Smarter
If I was smarter. Not just ordinary people smart either. No, I mean super smarter. And super-rich. I would invent a silent dirigible airship coated with a reflective surface that renders it invisible when looking up at it from below.
Then I would silently cruise the skies on calm sunny days. And float over people out enjoying the sunshine and drop a marshmallow on their head. I would fly low enough where it wouldn’t hurt them, but it would make them look up.
And when they looked up, I would drop a dollar bill with a small sticky note attached. And when they picked up the dollar bill and got over their wonder of money falling from the sky, they would notice that the sticky note has GPS coordinates on it. And instructions to download an app from the App store.
And once they had downloaded the app from the App store and entered the coordinates, they would find a map to a large field nearby. And if they decided to be adventurous and go to the field, they would see my stealth dirigible airship because it is visible from the side.
And if they walked across the field to my airship, they would see a sign that said: Airship Rides $1. And if they spent the dollar that fell from the sky and went inside the airship, they would find several bags of marshmallows and a stack of dollar bills with sticky notes on them. And they would know what to do.
And I would smile.
Happy Monday.
Mark
“The Boy and the Duck” was such a sweet story. I loved it.
I went to a Winnie-the-Pooh exhibition last year and I learned that he is in fact real!
Him and all the other characters were based on the author’s son’s toys. Maybe everyone knew this already but I had no idea 😅