Some days are better than others, that is for sure.  I like the ones where all the pieces seem to fit so nicely together.

Yet there are those occasions when things go terribly wrong.  Or perhaps even slightly astray.  No matter what you do… or where you turn…. something or someone is falling over.   Here are some examples…. none of which involve me.  Thankfully.

Okay….. this is true.  In 1980, sixteen stranded Danish fishermen were rescued.   From a boat.  It was cold.  They were nearly frozen and in bad shape… but rescued nonetheless.  After being given a warm drink all 16 dropped dead from a sudden drop in blood pressure.  It was caused by their constricted capillaries reopening nearly all at once.   That would suck.

Every once in a while, planes go down or malfunction.  But consider this.   A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts.     That’s over three million.  There is a lot that can go wrong with that many parts.  Trust me.  My clothes dryer is making sounds like an airplane and it only has 300 parts. And no drink service.

On with the doom and gloom.   More people in the U.S. die during the first week of each month than during the last. They think this is likely the result of abuses of substances purchased with benefit checks that arrive at the first of each month.   Flying high in the unfriendly skies.   And…. apparently WITH a drink service.

But we are not alone here in the U.S….. with this “dropping like flies syndrome.   Across the seas…..

More Japanese and Chinese people die on the fourth day of the month than any other days. They are likely “scared to death” by the number four…. or so I am told.  The words ‘four’ and ‘death’ sound alike in both Chinese and Japanese.   I can’t say for sure.  It all sounds like a foreign language to me.  But it is a dang good thing they don’t golf.  That could get ugly.

Sometimes bad things happen to good little beings…..
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.  After a hard day’s work like that…. and during the first week of the month… I bet there are a bunch of ants falling on their right sides.  I wonder if they drink Beetle Juice.

And finally…. a pig can cause you heartache ….

Between 1878 and 1890 of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, three dozen lives were lost. And it all stemmed from a dispute over the ownership of a pig.

And there you have it…. dag nab it anyhow.

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”   ― William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well

.