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Old 08-02-2021, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin View Post
True story. When we were driving through a small mountain town in PA, everyone kept waving at me. I said to my wife, "I must look like someone here in this town because people keep waving at me. It's either that, or these people are very friendly" A few minutes later we stopped to get lunch, and there were a lot of gnats. I started to wave them away from my face and realized, at that moment, people weren't waving at me, they were swatting away the gnats.
Amusing. Who said life is too important to take seriously? Twain?