Bad News as Opposed to Good News

(What’s the worst good news you’ve ever received? Here are a few that come to mind for me.

“Mr. Halter, this is Bill from the Ford service department. I’ve got some good news for you. All the smoke you saw wasn’t from a blown head gasket. It was actually from your transmission. The cost is only going to be $3,500 to fix it instead of $4,500.” Oh yeah!

Once, my neighbor Steve called me while I was picking up my daughter from school: “Hugh, I think the salmon you had on the grill is done.”

“Why do you say that, Steve?”

“Well, I can see huge plumes of smoke billowing…