Episode #136: Dad Says The Only People Worth Your Attention Are Little Childrens...

...because they're the only ones uncorrupted by the stank that we adults are currently giving to the world.

So earlier in the week, while I was out on one of my morning walks to nowhere, I found myself in the home stretch of my walk, in that I was on my home street some sixtyish yards away from my house.

So of course, being a late sunny morning {this past week the temps did not drop under 85 in the morning nor under 94 in the afternoon}, a few of the neighborhood children were out. When I say "few", I mean about four, since my neighborhood has pretty much turned over because the only ones that are left are now Class of 2022 graduates.

So....yeah.

Anyways, my street, for better or worse, has virtually no car/pedestrian traffic during the day M-F. In fact, for the morning thru early afternoon, you can count on one hand the amount of cars that come through. So I'm within actual sight of my house, when I hear the quadraphonic sound of four young voices calling out, 'LEMONADE!! FRESH LEMONADE!!" 

Now normally, I simply smile/wave in acknowledgement whenever I come across a lemonade stand. However, there was no possible way I could blow this one off, because living on the same street some six houses down gaurenteed that I would probably hear about for quite a while. So I sucked it up, went over to the tent and yes, I will have one. Financially, that one third of a cup cost me but a fifty cent piece.

Health-wise, I paid a hefty price for the rest of the day. As most everyone here is aware of, I are a diabetic. Which means I have to severely deaden my sugar intake. But, because this was my good deed for the day, I couldn't simply not drink the lemonade, nor could I pitch it within any kind of view. So I took a couple of noticeable sips in front of them, spoke to the mother who was feeding her very newborn baby for a few minutes, then made my way home with the cup of lemonade in my hand.

Now once I got inside the house, the lemonade got tossed. And my sugars stayed somewhat elevated for the rest of the day. Would I do this good deed again in the future on my street? If I was caught walking, you betcha I would. Would it be worth getting sick again? Yes and no. Yes to bring a little happiness to young children's faces, but no, getting sick to make children happy really wasn't a good thing. But you have to remember, children like to see/hear honesty in an adult, so I just simply couldn't walk away w/o drinking any of it.

So ultimately, my good deed made some children happy but made me sick for the rest of the day. So in this particular instance, a win-lose was actually the best outcome I could actually expect.

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