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Life Is Fast

Snap! Life is gone that fast.
Crackle. Lightning hits him.
Pop! Electricity goes off.
Zap! You are not trained. Do not fool with that electric wire!
Sizzle! Bzzzzz. Pow! 
Life rebounds out of your body into heaven.
Yes, life goes that fast.

Snap
Crackle
Pop
Zap
Pow!
Life is over.

The only one 
Who never realized
This was my 
Crotchety
Weird
Mean
105-year-old
Aunt

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Alexis Y. Date: 1/24/2019 2:35:00 AM OmG ! Caren, That is a horrible way to go . I see in the comments below that this true and really happened. A electrician as dangerous job- soupmail- Alexis Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 1/24/2019 6:27:00 AM This was a young farmer whose family's house was getting really cold; he wanted to "try something". With all watching. I am not clear if the children were there, but I think so.

Kai Michael Neumann Date: 1/24/2019 12:11:00 AM I must be careful, because I (idiosyncratic, whacky and untrained, have to do some electrical work. Thank you for the reminder ... Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 1/24/2019 12:38:00 AM Maybe this is the message you needed to see because of that work; be careful. Are you sure you do not want to pay someone who has the right equipment? Be safe.

M. L. Kiser Date: 1/23/2019 5:31:00 PM Oh my goodness! What a way to go! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 1/23/2019 8:57:00 PM I remember my sister telling me about her friend who tried to get her son to NOT touch the electric wires outside his farm house, because he had no training. They had not had power for almost a day and a half, and the electric company had them on the list, but they were cold. He would not listen - a kid of about 30, touched those wires, and got killed in front of his screaming mother, his wife, and his three little children 10, 8 and 4.

Line Gauthier Date: 1/23/2019 1:45:00 PM As you obviously know… only the good die young! Login to Reply Caren Krutsinger Date: 1/23/2019 2:00:00 PM Obviously. My sister despised this aunt so much that once when she INSISTED she bring my sister home from school because she was the 2nd-meanest-teacher-ever and she had KEPT her an extra hour for something silly, my sister was so frightened she sat so close to the door the door popped open and she fell OUT of the TRUCK while the old bat was driving.