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At least it made for an entertaining story. :)

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Good perspective!🤣🤔

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<giggle> <giggle> I think most of us can relate to the feeling of utter frustration trying to get through something - in that moment it feels like trying to sprint in a wading pool - and looking back on the event is like watching a video of yourself trying to sprint in a wading pool.

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Now I’m imagining myself actually trying to sprint in a wading pool. *That* would be hilarious (and maybe a little dangerous at my age?)! But yes, it is good to be able to laugh about things.

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Ditto to Mary McKnight regarding your storytelling and sense of humor.

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Thanks, Pete! Sometimes ya gotta laugh so you don’t cry.

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Holly-I adore your sense of humor!!!!! Your storytelling is fabulous. I think you have a book in you...Truly, each of your blog entries are essays...it's a book!

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Glad this one worked! It’s not my usual type of post (though I’m still not sure what “usual” is!), but it made me laugh when I reread it--so why not? We need to giggle at ourselves every now and then. As for a book...I believe there is one there. I just have to keep digging until I find it. In the meantime, I’m enjoying writing for all of you!

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You have a great voice for storytelling!

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This story was born from sheer frustration!

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Yes, clearly, but you can tell it with the sass necessary to keep it from being a whine. I lived in NOLA for a while back in the early 90s, pre-Katrina, and used to spend time in Madisonville, and that side of the lake. I love the sound of that accent.

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There used to be a great little dive in Madisonville that served THE BEST Dungeness crabs! Nothing like the food in Greater NO! I spent most of my adult life in the Baton Rouge region and married a man whose grandfather spoke Cajun French. My mother laments that I lost my "Southern" accent, which was really a rural Mississippi accent with tons of mispronunciations!

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Oh, yeah. I am sure that broke Granny's heart. I used to work with a woman from Biloxi who had the best American accent I ever heard. :)

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Oy, I do not miss stresses like this!

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I miss a lot of things about living in Oregon. Like, a LOT. The annual trip to DEQ for an inspection is not one of them.

Note: no inspections also comes in handy when your son does things like take a sawzall to his truck's exhaust system to "make it sound better." Or so I've heard.

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Hahahahhaha! I’m so glad to know someone else has one of *those* sons!

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funny story, thanks for sharing! On my lunch break and enjoyed the chuckle. Have a great beach trip.

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Thanks! It was wonderful!...except for the sand flies!🥴

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Interestingly enough, tears will release stress chemicals from your body, but laughter sends chemical signals that negate the corticosteroids released when we are under stress. Our laughter communicates a message of "relief” to the rest or our (group)(flock)(herd)(pack), “Relax! We’re okay now!”

I wrote my Master’s Thesis on relieving speech anxiety with humor.

By writing your story you not only sidetracked more negative feelings, but also gave yourself some grins and then passed them on to us.

By using that particular “..laugh, so you don’t cry!” phrase you also just “collaborated” with me!

Those were the last words I spoke to my “driver” who was depositing me at treatment's door. And they felt like they *were* my “Last Words,” that my life was over, all the fun was gone.

You have reminded me that I’ve already written about that and also reminded me that the dreaded “Publish” button awaits, once I find that file. Hopefully, “the Good Lord willing and (the phone don’t ring),” I can send that to Merlin’s Newsletter yet this morning. Well, it’s still Saturday night somewhere (a self-imposed deadline).

I am also cooking up replies to Terry Freedman, Chris Dangerfield, Moviewise and (?), so my Yoga done, my need to check in with my “team” then take a walk, is pressing me forward, already aware that my To Do list has not been reduced, but only added to. Beats boredom and waiting for the end.

Speaking of humor, a TEDx Talk by comedian Michael Jr. re putting a positive spin on negative situations can turn into a happy ending. It is 20-minutes well spent. And…yes, he made me LOL along the way.

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I relate! 👋 Super notorious for waiting until the last minute to renew our tabs. We have emissions inspections every two years, too, if we donny pass I’m scrambling to find a same day mechanic. 🤦‍♀️

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*don’t. Why does my phone always auto correct this to donny?! What is the contextual use for donny that overrides don’t?!

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Omg Im laughing so hard right now! My phone has started doing some weird autocorrects. I’ll have to start making a note of them and include them in a post one day. But donny...now that one has me so confused!🤣

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This sounds like one of my stories. Sometimes we think that only certain things happen to us, when in fact it happens to other people too. I'm glad everything worked out. Maybe my writing rubbed off on you and got you thinking about funny stuff that has happened to you. At least, I'd like to think so. ;)

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Oh, I definitely had a good laugh at your recent story about missing underwear!🤣 Thought I’d give y’all a different side of me this week.

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You have a great voice for storytelling!

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