Gravel

In diving to the bottom of pleasure, we bring up more gravel than pearls.

~ Honore de Balzac

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When I saw the little kid lying on her back in the gravel and flailing her arms and legs about, I was concerned that she might have fallen and was injured.  Then I heard her mother yell, "Are you making another gravel angel?!"

It was a little funny, but somehow it was also rather sad.