Posted by Terry on January 11, 2005 at 07:49:02:
In Reply to: if he had only called... posted by equal opportunity exaggerations on January 11, 2005 at 06:27:19:
: If Tim had only called, perhaps they would have made plans to do something...and perhaps those plans would have been to go somewhere. And perhaps they would have wanted coffee (as Tim seems fond of it). And perhaps the coffee shop they visited would have been crowded, which would mean that the trash can might have been full. So Tim might have to leave his cup beside it but not in it. Of course the last few drops of foam would remain in the cup, as they can never be perfectly drained. Then of course some boisterous college students might have come in and knocked the cup on the floor spilling the few drops. But no one could have known that the man behind them was actually on his way out. This man just might have slipped on the spill, causing him not serious injury, but merely a sore shoulder, or back, that kept him at home for a few days. This might force him to delay his trip by one week such that on the airplane, he would have now been seated next to the woman would become the love of his life who would have eventually married him, and their third child might have been extraordinarily gifted and might have had a love for plants that would have taken him around the world in search of new species. And had he been able to rescue it before it was destroyed for farmland and lumber, the spore growing in the upper reaches of a rare tree in a particular climate might have been economic encentive enough to stop the destruction of forests in Madagascar which would have turned the tide of the economy in third world nations due to the fact that this spore could only be grown in a narrow band of latitude just south of the equator. And because of this shift in world power, the US would change it's foreign policy and the world would again be more open to US citizens which would have allowed further aid to spread across the world reducing hunger and eliminating dirty drinking water from the all populated areas of the planet. This in turn would have spurred further education and growth and eventually the burgeoning of a new century of world peace that would come to be called the Pax Sporii (after the spore of course).
: But no...he didn't call, so instead the man took his trip, thinking it would bring him relief from his mundane life, and instead of meeting the love of his life, met the woman he THOUGHT was the love of his life, but who would eventually run out on him leaving him even more wounded with a single child who would have lacked the proper parental influence and would have lost ambition and taken a job serving coffee at yet another coffee house...
: OOHHHHHHH, if he had only called!!!!
See, now that is what I mean. Oh, and I still have not gotten a phone call.