Monday Morning Mark • 82
Oops! • No Thanks I’ll Walk • What Fashion Models Think About When They Are Posing
One Minute Wit
Oops!
Don’t you hate it when you step outside for a breath of fresh air,
and you suddenly remember you’re on a submarine.
Microfiction
No Thanks I’ll Walk
Somewhere in Latvia
Juris was like any boy. He played in the fields with his friends and begrudgingly did his studies when his mother goaded him.
In high school, Juris set his mind on escaping to the city. He longed for success and excitement. Things he couldn’t find in his rural hometown.
Juris studied hard and excelled. Soon he left for college. Juris studied business and after college began his own startup. His determination led him to great success. In a few years, he had achieved all his dreams.
As time passed, Juris felt a call in his heart to return home to see his family and hometown.
A short break will be fine, Juris assured himself. It had been years since he took any time off. He decided to go home.
Juris planned to surprise his parents, so he asked his old friend Edgars to pick him up at the airport and give him a ride.
Two miles from his home, Juris asked Edgars to stop the car.
“Is something wrong? Edgars asked.
“No. Not at all. I just feel like walking,” Juris replied.
As he walked, Juris looked around and wondered why he had been in such a hurry to leave.
Humor
What Fashion Models Think About When They Are Posing
The surprising answers
When you see a photo of a fashion model looking glamorous, have you ever wondered what they were actually thinking?
I have.
So I asked them.
Amazingly, many of them were happy to answer. Here are some of their surprising thoughts while posing.
Hurry up, Dude. I have a dissertation that isn’t going to write itself.
How did people know what to think before memes?
Why are the Theory of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics both considered correct and yet appear to contradict each other?
If Frosty the Snowman went to Wendy’s and ordered a Frosty, would that make him a cannibal?
Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of giving you warts, frogs spit out diamonds?
I need to get off social media. It’s exhausting to continually form judgments on other people and then tell them how to live and what to think. In addition to solving numerous world and local problems. Plus pushing my political agenda and promoting my books and cosmetics line. And, of course, sharing the latest funny memes and my Wordle scores. If only I wasn’t so pretty. I could go off the grid.
Are Fruit Loops really fruit?
Ten minutes ‘til banjo time.
“You can do anything you set your mind to do” doesn’t really apply to jellyfish. Does it?
Who decided that a doctor, after being exposed to an overdose of gamma radiation and becoming capable of morphing into a ferocious, gigantic green monster when agitated is Incredible? I submit that, in fact, he should be called the Irritable Hulk.
I need a churro. Now!
Thank you, models, for sharing your thoughts.
They were very insightful.
Happy Monday.
Mark
"Oops!" — Happened on our sub. About halfway through a 10-week patrol. A junior enlisted on his first deployment decided he just needed to step outside for a few minutes. He got to spend a few days strapped into his rack (bunk) until he decided that he REALLY needed to step outside, at which point the corpsman put him on meds for the rest of the patrol. Since it wasn't a medical emergency, we couldn't surface to medevac him (ask for a helicopter to take him ashore).
Our cross to bear...