The Easier Choice

I have a coal mine in my back yard. I go digging in it for coal and then bring up the nuggets and toss them in my stove to cook breakfast.

My wife says life was easier when our stove was hooked up to the natural gas pipe.

She’s right. But using the piped-in gas hurt the feelings of the coal. And it was hard for me to sleep at night amidst the crying of the un-minded coal briquets.