Tim Shortridge > Quotes

“I read somewhere that as much as 90% of the enjoyment we experience in life is experienced through anticipation. What that means is that we normally get more enjoyment out of the anticipation of upcoming events than we derive out of experiencing the actual events themselves. I don’t know if this is always true, but in 1991 I took my family on a vacation where I’d have to say that just about all of our enjoyment was experienced through the anticipation. Not that the vacation was horrible (which it was), but the anticipation of this vacation was incredible.”
― Tim Shortridge, Out of Plumb: A Quirky Collection of Humorous Short Stories and Poems

“A true story. One afternoon when our son, Richard, was in fifth grade, my wife called me at work to say he had received a one-day suspension for losing his temper during recess. Because we both worked, this was more of a punishment for us than it was for Richard. He hated going to school anyway. I called the school immediately and attempted to reason with the principal. She refused to understand my point of view, and by the time I finished yelling at her, she had suspended Richard for two more days.”
― Tim Shortridge, Out of Plumb: A Quirky Collection of Humorous Short Stories and Poems