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One of the girls

            So yesterday while driving with my bride of 37 years, I decided to see if I could spin her up. Out of the blue I announced that I had something that I needed to tell her. Intentionally creating a long silence after my opening salvo, I could feel her staring into the side of my head as she said in her somewhat irritated voice “Ok…what?” 

I took a deep breath (totally for effect) and announced as if in a confessional that on the previous morning while out taking photos that I had stopped for two girls on the side of the road. Her immediate response was “WHAT” …which is the old school equivalent of today’s…Oh No You Didn’t! In the moment of silence that followed, I took my eyes off the road for just a moment to see her facial expression. I was very disappointed that it was one of thought and not of anger…she was already questioning my story.

Knowing that if I had any chance of saving my quest, I had to throw more fuel on the fire. I blurted out that one was older than the other…looking again, her eyes said she wasn’t buying it. Seconds passed and I didn’t see her face, but I could tell she was smiling when she said “They were turtles, weren’t they?” I sheepishly replied “Yes, but the older one hissed at me when I went to pick her up…just like the real girls use to!”

This is the younger of the two girls.

Taken on: July 11, 2022

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