[Ducati] how I handle stress

[Alec Moss]

Hey, he knew how to get you going, didn't he?   :-)


Alec


On 4/1/08 3:24 PM, "Stephen Abramson" <desmo900 at optonline.net> wrote:

> So I'm showering after work today, and my 17 year old son comes in to the
> room and says, "Yo Dad, I think we got a problem." That's never really a
> good thing for any Dad to hear, especially when he continues and says, "I
> dropped the ladder on the Ducati." Now I begin to process information very
> rapidly. First I think how much it sucks that just last night I pulled the
> battery to replace it and didn't put the cover back on, so there goes the
> first line of defense against damage. The next thought is that there is
> currently no ladder in the garage, and for him to go get a ladder from the
> shed to do any kind of unsolicited work (?)would mean he had suffered some
> sort of brain trauma, so that allowed the calmly spoken response, " Well I
> certainly hope you're kidding. . . " At this point he cracks and laughs, and
> says, "Damn, I can't keep a straight face- April Fools!" I told him he was a
> poor planner. He should have come in and said that he dropped one of the
> bike stands that hangs on the wall over the bike. That might have made a
> little more sense.
> 
>  
> 
> Don't you want to just kill them. . . . ?
> 
>  
> 
> Steve
> 
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