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I Was One Hour Too Late
You either win or you lose in this life
“We can leave early," I said.
So we got things ready in a hurry in the morning.
“We need to leave in an hour."
“We are not going to make it," I replied.
But then, unbelievably, we caught the last train.
It felt great!
Then, we relaxed a bit for a while.
“What about the ferry?"
“Maybe we can catch the early one," I answered. We just have to get there soon enough.
Unfortunately, as we turned a corner, the ferry took off without us.
I couldn’t believe it.
“There’s a second one on the way," said somebody in line.
Okay, so soon enough we were on the big ferry on a beautiful Sunday and the blue water was spectacular to see.
At last, after a very long trek, we got to the ballpark for the game.
As the employees scanned our tickets, I looked around and nobody was passing out what I was hoping to see.
