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Yikes

October 19, 2015 1 Comment

YIKES

By Jonathan Shipley

It was dumb complaining about the amount of foam in my latte when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse came roaring into town annihilating everything. Here I am, surly with the barista who didn’t seem to care about the foam at all! Sorry, I shouldn’t have complained. I’m well—a girlfriend back at the house, two pugs, a cool recumbent bike. But I was crabby, and boom, here comes Conquest, War, Famine and Death. It really made me feel like a chucklehead for complaining about something so trivial when, you know, everyone died. My girlfriend vaporized to ash. I mean—yikes.

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  1. Tony Press says

    October 19, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    Another fun one!

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