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Those Annoying Things in Life

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You know, sometimes little things can be so
annoying. Take, for example, the day I went to help an
old friend. Winter was coming on, and he asked me to
pack insulation underneath his trailer house, especially
around the water pipes. The winter before had been
very cold, and more than once the water pipes under his
house had frozen. I had spent many hours that winter
running heaters under his trailer to thaw the pipes to get
the water flowing again. We hoped to get enough
insulation tucked around the pipes so that we wouldn’t
face the same problem in the upcoming winter.
So after work one evening, I started by trying to
take off the trailer skirting on the front of his house. I
loosened some and then reached a point where it went
behind the stairs that led to the front door. I really
didn’t want to take the stairs off since I knew that
would be a big job.
I tried to pry the stairs out just enough so that I
could get the skirting off, but no matter how I tried, I
couldn’t get it off with the stairs in the way. That was
when I considered how annoying little things can be,

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