Mules

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

~ William Faulkner

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When I was a child my mother made Erik and I each some pajamas. She used liquid embroidery on them. On the front of Erik's she drew a lion and wrote "Strong as a lion." On mine she drew a mule and put "Stubborn as a mule."

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No, really. She did that.

I was complaining about it to Leslie the other night. I said, "Why couldn't she put 'Tenacious as a pterodactyl" instead? That sounds nicer."

Leslie said, "Or crabby as a crab."

Leslie makes me so angry sometimes.

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Also, maybe my mom didn't know how to spell pterodactyl or how to draw one. That's probably it.