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“I hate floods!”
“No one loves them, unless there’s been a drought, I suppose.”
“This is just nasty, Dad. Dead snakes in the basement, stinking water halfway up the walls. And all this filthy sea weed gunk! What good is it, anyway?”
“You’re having quite an attitude, Son.” Dad stopped, leaned on his rake, and said, “It could be worse, you know.”
“Yeah? I don’t see how!”
“Well, we could live where the snakes are alive and poisonous. We could have to haul water from a dirty stream. We could have to eat grasshoppers and beetles.”
“Ugh!”
Just Writing! 
And seaweed makes great fertiliser!
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Yes, it surely could be a lot worse 🙂
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There’s always someone worse off
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That’s why I can never move to Australia! Not much wildlife in the UK is lethal! 🙂
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Australia, Africa–swampy places in the USA, deserts in the USA–all kinds of creepy crawlies. My husband tells me there are lots of snakes where we live, they just don’t come into people country. I’ve heard of people here seeing an occasional black snake, but don’t worry, they’re harmless. Uhuh.
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Snakes are the worst!
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It’s never so bad that it couldn’t be worse…
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Now, that’s a dad after my gr. grandfather’s attitude. Things CAN always be worse. We SHOULD count ourselves as blessed. Even when the world around us was shut down, I reminded hubby of this. The hardest part was banking as no one would take cash/coins, and the banks were closed so you couldn’t get info on your account. It was scary, I’ll admit… but I reminded hubby daily that it could be worse… even when we both had covid (mild case), I reminded him that we could be ‘dead’. I can’t imagine finding dead snakes in my home… I would be a screaming freaking basket case if I even saw a garter snake in the yard.
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Me too!
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Although the Dad uses a logical fallacy(the Worst Case Negates the Bad), hey it gets results.
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Dear Linda,
The father’s a wise man. It could always be worse. A good story through dialogue and a good reminder to be give thanks for everything.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle.
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when you come down to it, it’s all about perspectives. 🙂
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Gratitude is a great lesson none of us want to learn by experience. Junior will catch it someday — and then he’ll tell his children, “Stop complaining about this little job. You know, when I was young we had this flood and you should have seen the mess WE to clean up… 😉
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Happens in every generation 🙂
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Glass half full. Nice story with a message, Linda
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Could be a lot worse for sure, so let’s look on the bright side for a change seems like a great way to go through life!
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Perspective is everything! Nice!
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It can always be worse. On occasion, it’s healthy to sulk though. Ugh snakes!
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Triple ugh, endless ugh.
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Good story about conflicting points of view, Linda.
And re the other comments above I’d like to say this.
Be nice, snakes are people too!
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Snaky people, indeed 🙂
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Sounds like a lesson in ‘glass half full’ is needed here. Nicely done, Linda.
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No matter how bad things are they could always be worse – there’s no such thing as absolute worst.
Here’s mine!
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Sadly, youth can never see the good when they haven’t experienced the bad.
In my day … Oh, no … I’ll pass on going there. LOL
Nicely done, Linda. I almost missed you on the FF link list … new pix.
Have a great day … Be Safe
Isadora 😎
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I can’t believe it when I hear “Back when I was growing up. . . .” coming out of my mouth. Only OLD people say that stuff 🙂
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LOLOLOL Ii guess @73 I am OLD … LOLOLOL
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I’m also 73. My mind feels young almost all the time. My body? Well, that comes and goes 🙂
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LOL .. I belong to your type of group. May we continue to have a sharp mind, compassionate heart and a little less aches and pain. Blessings 🙏 😀
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Things could always be worse, but that’s seldom a comfort in the moment. Good story.
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Grass is greener. Good piece.
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That told him! I doubt he’s stop complaining, though 🙂
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(he’ll)
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Well, here’s hoping he’ll at least hush for a minute or two 🙂
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Nice, it just shows how, as we get older we can take set backs in our stride. Life is for living, warts and all.
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AMAZINGGGG !!
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Thank you 🙂
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Well, it definitely could be worse. Imagine having to walk through all that for over an hour.
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Good for Dad for putting things into perspective. It could be worse.
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Indeed. For most people in this tired old world, it IS worse, by quite a lot!
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Dad sure doesn’t mince words! Hopefully, his son will learn to be grateful sooner rather than later.
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Indeed!
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We have had only 3 snakes pass through in the last two months. Two deadly poisonous and other a harmless python. The neighbourhood facebook group has posted about pets killed by snake bites. Yay summer is here. Though on the plus side the meter long iguana sunning on a tree in my yard is harmless. Did I mention the aussie spiders?
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Gah!
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