“(2)What goes up…should come back down…right…”, Jonathan mumbled to his puppy that was staring up at him, wagging his tail vigorously, as Jonathan rubbed the back of his own head.

He was trying to be humorous about having been on the receiving end of a volleyball that seemed to fall out of the sky, but he knew better; The ball belonged to his neighbors, and if Jonathan had anything to do with it, it had done its last crossing over the fence into his backyard and bonking him on the head while he is sitting in his lawn chair and minding his own business.

For one moment of guilty pleasure he pictured himself taking the steak knife and cutting right through their volleyball, but that would be really immature. “(4)So what if it is immature?”, he thought to himself. Getting plunked on the head by a volleyball on almost daily basis now, begged leaving the rules of propriety behind.

Jonathan decided to take action, so, while still rubbing the back of his head with one hand, he grabbed the volleyball with the other, and sauntered towards the gate that led to his neighbors.

Jonathan noticed the megawatt smiles on the faces of his neighbors Paul and Tina, as he walked into their yard. “Look honey, Jonathan is bringing our volleyball back! Would you like to join us for a game, Jonny?”, Tina squealed.

Before Jonathan had a chance to answer, Tina came over, grabbed the ball from his hand, put her arm through his, and announced, ” (5)Turn that frown upside down, mister. I know what will cheer you up, come join us for lunch, we were about to take a break anyway”.

“Umm.., well.., I don’t know about that. I’m not that hungry”, Jonathan mumbled.

Tina, always hyper with inhuman energy levels, chuckled to his undecisive and a bit perplexed expression and retorted, “Oh, don’t be silly, dear. I saw what you did to that open buffett, on the memorial day party. You have a healthy appetite and you should be proud of it, besides I bet you haven’t had lunch yet, how can you not be hungry? Come, come, I’ll fix you a plate, we’ll sit by the cabana and enjoy a neighborly lunch on a bright sunny day”.

She was so darn cheerful that Jonathan was having a difficult time in finding the words to reprimand her and her volleyball loving hubby who had dashed into the house after waving him hello.

Once Jonathan entered their house, almost being dragged by Tina, he was hit by an unidentifiable cloud of stench. Without even thinking, “(3)Something REALLY stinks!”, he blurted out.

Tina, instead of looking offended as Jonathan feared she would, clapped her hands gleefully and turned to her husband, “See…see!! Jonathan thinks that all those herbs you mix with your food in your desperate hopes to outlive me, smell badly, too.”

Then she turned to Jonathan and explained, “One day I was driving by a health food store and I pulled over to check it out. I had read about these herbs that are supposed to give you a longer and healthier life so I bought some”. She paused to raise her eyes heavenward and exhale,”Gosh, (1)what was I thinking? They turned out to be smelling so terrible when mixed with any kind of liquid or food that, I couldn’t touch them again. Yet, my beloved husband here, religiously mixes them with his food every single blessed day, and I simply have to stay away from him for the next half hour”.

Then she winked at Jonathan conspiratorially and added, “But the smell does go away soon and one good thing I can tell you about those herbs is, they sure have given him extra power and energy in a lot of physical activites. Not just volleyball, you know. Finally his energy levels match mine and I sure am not complaining. Have you even seen me lately without wearing a smile?”

As Jonathan shook his head, speechless, Tina chirped in delight, “Oh, they have done wonders for his stamina. I don’t know if he will outlive me or not, but I sure am loving the way he is living with me right now”.

Tina stopped her babbling when Paul called out from the kitchen, “Honey, why don’t you give poor Jonathan’s ears a break and get him seated at the cabana and then pour some lemonade in glasses for all of us while I finish fixing lunch?”

Tina giggled like a little girl and led a still dazed looking Jonathan to their cabana and then rushed inside to pour some icy lemonade for all of them.

As she was cutting slices of lemons to attach to the rims of the glasses, she gaily thought to herself, “Jonathan must be so very happy to have neighbors like us”.

THE END

So what if I cheated on my husband? He did the same to me; as the old adage goes: what goes up should come back down, right? But then I got a really bad guilty feeling about seeing another man and said to myself: “What was I thinking?” My husband immediately found out about my escapades and said to me angrily, ” Something really stinks!”

I got my act together, left the other guy and told myself the following Mantra: “Turn that frown upside down, girl!”

‘Something REALLY stinks!’ Peter heard Sally’s strident voice yet again in his ears, she was filling the kettle and he was watering his cacti. It hadn’t been a particularly good evening.

‘What goes up..should come back down..right? Have you been sick in the toilet after I cleaned it yesterday? So what if you had missed it totally again, and my parents are coming tomorrow for Sunday lunch?’

Peter put the watering can down and turning to Sally, who was marginally the physically more powerful of the two of them, uttered with an apologetic smile of resignation, ‘OK darling let’s make it up.’

He knew what this meant, it had happened many times before, and yet it had always saved the day and their affectionate but sometimes tenuous bond from further damage, even if the process was not without its humiliations while it was happening.

And here was the familiarity of it all over again, suddenly Sally’s reading glasses were down on the table and she was striding over the room towards him, the next moment he felt himself wrenched up over her shoulder, flip-flops flying, and being carried upside down to the bathroom.

She held him over the pan that he should really have helped to clean earlier, it didn’t smell too good, but the familiar words were reassuring now and the tone less threatening;

‘Turn that frown upside down….’

Then his feet were on the floor again and they were hugging and laughing:

‘Love you in spite of everything! What was I thinking that there could have been any doubt?’ she giggled, as she took the Harpic out of the bathroom cupboard……………..

What was I thinking? said Charlie Brown after his kite lodged in a tree. “What goes up must come down ..right ” he asked Lucy. “That philosophy might be wrong,so what if it never comes down”?said Lucy.

“something really stinks in that statement”, said Charlie Brown “if it doesn’t come down, I’ll be so sad”. Turn that frown upside down said Lucy, forget the kite and lets kick the ole foot ball around.

the clowns where lined up for miles. Each wanted to be the clown idol of the year. Jonny the 387 clown in line was almost up. He had to do his act in front of 3 judges. He was getting very nervous. he mumbled to himself “WHAT WAS I THINKING”, he said, knowing that there was over 1000 clowns trying out. He called his mom to tell her he was going to drop out. His mom said, ” so what if there is 1000 clowns trying out. GO up there a knock there socks off.. Jonny the clown said that he would give it a try. He walked into the judging room. The judges all seemed so serious he thought. So he started by saying “Turn that frown upside down!”The judges didnt seeem inpressed. One of them said” Something REALLY stinks.” Jonny replyed” ohh, those are just my mud pies he said throughing one up in the air. “what goes up …should come back down…right,” said one of the judges. “RIGHT,” giggled johnny. Well the pie did come back down and landed right on one of the judges face. That judge feeling very dirty thought jonny sould be sent home. But the other 2 judges feeling that jonny had just brighten up there day voted jonny through to the next round.

Jonny called his mom. “i am soo proud of u jonny, so so proud,” is all that she said.

so what if something really stinks around here,now what was i thinking,,o yea,you said”turn that frown up side down””y heck i thought you said” whay goes up should come back down,,right—-no,where ya goin,home, what fof?”…..IS

I’ll try to be back by tomorrow evening.

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