There was a woman who spent her life picking four leaf clovers and wondering when things were going to turn her way. She’s now in the hospital with a severe case of poison ivy. “For crying out loud, if you’re going to pick clovers, at least have the foresight to know what a clover looks like and if not that, by all means the poison ivy,” spoke another woman, who lived a far more fulfilling life, hacking her way through the brush and steering free of both.

Roger McManus