After between 100 and 150 tries (and I’m being conservative here), my dad was frustrated. He couldn’t get the two cycle engine on the chainsaw to start.
“Just leave it. Do something else,” I said, pretty much resigning myself to the fact that we would never get it going in order to cut the felled trees in [...]

Last Sunday, when the waitress spilled coffee on Tye, she told him, “Don’t worry about it. It’s on me.”
I said, “Clearly, it’s on him!”
After gorging myself with the all-you-can-eat Sunday wings special, my friends and I headed out to the creek with our gear. I should say their gear, because I don’t have any serviceable [...]