“Almost everything that happens is either a good time or a good story.”

1: It was the weekend. The family drove into the countryside for a picnic.

“Just as they’d laid an impressive lunch spread on the blanket,”  Oliver Burkeman writes in Meditations for Mortals, “the heavens opened, but on this occasion, the parents let the kids eat anyway, in a pandemonium of wet sandwiches and laughter.”

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