Sunday With Calvin
Keep your friends close and your tigers closer…?
OK – ‘fess up out there, who else has can relate to this?
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“Questions I know the answer to I don’t need to ask, right?”
I’d like to think I try to live my life by those words. 😉
SJS,
For me it was a barn and a “glider.” Yes I can relate. It’s always better to ask forgiveness than permission.
I’m with Mike. Permission, forgiveness, and all that. 😀
Presaged the base jumpers by a good decade or two – knotted bedsheet w/running start down the roof from the 2nd story. It didn’t work…at least I missed the rose bushes, but not the, um, dog leavings – entirely.
– SJS