48 Years Later, Friday The 13th Becomes A Sic WEEKLING

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February, 1981

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Friday the 13th

and I caused a car accident

that inspired a pink slip 

from my job with

  Metropolitan Life

on Long Island

 

I had lost a job

but internally

I jumped for joy

and started singing

California, Here I Come

♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓♓

 

Luckily for me,

no one heard me sing

because if they had,

I would have been

a victim of

justifiable homicide

 

I write about this

100 % purely factual event

because last Friday was also

Friday the 13th

and I pulled the proverbial sheets

over my head

 

Thankfully,

it was disaster-free

 ♑ ♑

 

However,

a Weekling

is defined as a day

whose impact

is non-existent until

exactly one week later

which would be today

January 20th, 2023

 

The disaster that struck today

makes me wish

I could re-live my life 

as a teacher

and I would preach

the following:

 

TO HELL WITH

READING, WRITING & ARITHMETIC

 

 It is light years more important

for children

to first learn how to

fix a toilet  that refuses

to flush

 

Hopefully,

before the day ends,

the $60 "snake" I just purchased

—exactly what Roto-Rooter uses—

will allow the toilet 

to do the right thing

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© PAUL OLIVERIO ©

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