"Your grandpa lives in Alaska, way out in the middle of no where, in a cabin. It's not like here, where you can run to the store anytime you want something. You have to plan ahead and make a supply run. Especially before the winter. You have to plan for everything you might need because if you forget something or run out of something you just have to go without until spring. One winter, Mac ran out of cigarettes."
"Why did he run out?"
"Is he just going to go without?"
"Why didn't he just quit?"
"Do you want to hear this story or not?"
"YEEEES tell it, tell it!"
"Alright then, listen. So, he got the sled dogs ready, he loaded the sled and made the dangerous trek to go get cigarettes. …………………"
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*dialing BigD"*
"Hey d, I need your help. Remember that story about Grandpa Mac and he takes the sled to get smokes …"
"I've never heard that story in my life."
"What are you talking about, of course you have."
"Nope."
"But I'm trying to figure out if I'm mixing it up with that other story about Papa Parks and how he quit when cigarettes went up to .25 cents."
"Papa Parks smoked?"
"Oh for gawds sake never mind."
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"He barely makes it into the little town, buys ONE pack of cigarettes, barely makes it back to the cabin and when he gets there he takes a hammer and a nail and he nails that pack of cigarettes to the wall."
"But why? Why doesn't he smoke them?"
"Why did he go all that way and then not smoke them?"
"Because he never wanted to be in that position again."
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