09 August 2011

Seven virtues - charity

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Charity

The boy is delighted with the skateboard. "It has glow in the dark paint," I tell him. "Pretty cool, right?" Giving it away makes me feel warm inside, like it's the best thing I've done in a long time.

I go to different parts of the playground to give the X-box games away; don't want the same people to get everything. I want to see as many happy, smiling faces as possible. Every time someone thanks me I feel good.

Plus it will make it that much harder for my horrible, Barbie-beheading brother to get all his stuff back.

Bonus.

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for the laugh! I feel lucky that my little brother hasn't given away my stuff. Only thrown a robot dinosaur off the balcony. It survived.

    "I don't want the same people to get everything" that sounds so sweet until the last line.

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  2. That brother is never getting all of his stuff back, what a tricky twist on charity. "Bonus" Perfect ending, I am still laughing.

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  3. Her brother is going to ANNIHILATE all her barbies when he discovers this!

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  4. Fantastic! I love her smugness too. Worryingly, I can imagine my daughter doing this!

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  5. I love this little revenge story.

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  6. Very amusing, and worth a laugh--though feels little less than virtuous and more like the beginning of a war of escalation that will likely end with either death or decisive parental intervention.

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