Part III Spring Is on the Way Sunday afternoon, before dad left to go back to work, mother and dad got in one of their shouting matches. Although it...was winter, probably late March, a warm spell caused it to be almost spring like so I went for a ride on my bicycle to get away from them. I had dressed warmly but I had worn no gloves. As I rode aimlessly, I wished I had more than the two friends that I had. Both of my friends were only children of single mothers and in each case their mothers. She started consoling me. She said “you don’t need to be sad. You will find a better girl. You don’t need to be all gloomy about this. Take my case, for example. My husband is a drunkard. He beats me a majority of the days.I had even thought of taking my life, but I couldn’t because of my children. See that’s life. It will give you many hard times, but you should be able to stand against it and fight it back. At the end, it will make you happy.” I was weeping slowly. She hugged me closer to her. "Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.I'm great at multi-tasking--I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.Never tell your problems to anyone, because 20 percent don't care and the other 80 percent are glad you have them.Doesn't expecting the unexpected mean that the unexpected is actually expected?Take my advice — I'm not using it.My wife and I were happy for twenty years; then. Then again, so could Olivia and Tammy, while my Karin, Anna-Lena, and Linnéa resembled triplets. Drop-dead gorgeous Swedish triplets, no less!“Clever caveat, Master! That way, you can avoid altering some folks by wearing gloves, plastic or others. And this way, you can give any mother and daughter plenty of time to get bred by as many men as possible!” Tammy all but read my mind, the cute little minx.“Now, we’re talking! By the way, since my word is now the supreme law of the land, worldwide,.