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May Day May Day | Episode 9

The Things I Wouldn’t Want to Do … An Anti-Bucket List?

I don’t understand the assignment.

Nancy Oglesby
6 min readMay 10, 2023

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My bucket list of what I never want to do.

I never wanna end up in the hospital with a team of doctors encircling the bed chatting about what the next step is.

Get pulled down the street by a runaway coyote.

Get drawn and quartered.

Tarred and feathered.

Treated to a torture rack.

I never want to read War and Peace again.

I never want my car to break down in the middle lane of an interstate highway.

I never want to forget my clothes and go to the grocery store naked.

Or reach into my deck box and Find a snake at the bottom.

I definitely never want to go to a Slipknot concert.

I never want to cut the grass when it’s 95°.

I never want wild animals to wander into my house.

I never want to miss my flight.

I sure as hell don’t want to visit Florida.

I don’t want to live in the desert.

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Nancy Oglesby
Nancy Oglesby

Written by Nancy Oglesby

I explore life and tell stories! Embracing the world of Drabbles. Publisher of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and Another Fucking Publication

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