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By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper avoided slipping into a deep depression when his shirt sleeve caught the edge of a soup bowl and dumped its chicken-noodle contents in his lap.
Do not sweat the small things, is the tenet to live by, but is a lap drenched with chicken soup a small thing?
Has the food-stained clothing curse of the elderly accelerated to the point that a lap full of soup is part of it?
As the questions piled up, the keeper briefly considered crying, but the image of a crying old man with a lap full of chicken noodle soup was not one he wanted to share with Phyllis.
When he came back from changing clothes, Phyllis had wiped up the soup residue, and appeared to have been amused by the incident.
That’s it, Phyllis!  Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone, especially over something as minor as a lap full of soup.
