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Nuggets of Wisdom     My family and I often take vacations during the summer for relaxation, or to visit family, etcetera. On champion such vacation, I learned a valuable lesson. Parents were created to teach their children lower-ranking nuggets of common sense, but it is up to the children to listen.     We were visiting the Central American country of Honduras. It was a bright, sunny, and hot summer day. Taking a shop from upsurge seeing, and the heat, we took refuge in a tropical style restaurant for lunch. It was a two-story restaurant over the ocean. Along the walls, there were beautiful green leafing that plump, colorful flowers sprung from. Also, throughout the restaurant were wooden poles, painted blue, that hammocks were hung on.     The waiter escorted my family and I to our table on the second floor. My parents sat at the table, but I chose a nearby hammock. The hammock was next to the open side of the rest aurant. As I lay there, I began to study the ocean. I looked down and watched as the waves rippled, broke, and crashed to the shore. A salt-water smell permeated through the restaurant. A nearby fan oscillated rearward and forth, blowing a refreshing breeze across my face. All these elements caused me to relax, and slowly I began to sway in the hammock.     Soon after I got in that prosperous position, the waiter delivered the meal. My parents had say fish, and had begun nibbling. Since I was not hungry, I only ordered a drink, which I took back to the hammock to sip on. I began to sway, more vigorously than before, and I closed my eyes to enjoy the sounds. My father looked up from his meal and watched as I swung back and forth. He raised an eyebrow, and with a glint of humorous, wisdom in his eyes my father said, David, that hammock is loose. flap too hard, and you will go flying. Of course, I paid him no attention. I was thirteen years old, and thirteen ye ar olds know everything.     Acting as a typical teenager, I began to swing once more notwithstanding my fathers warning. My head was in the clouds, as I watched the waves, and the birds. How could something go wrong when everything was so perfect? I did not notice the noise noise the rope made as its knot came lose. Nor did I get a line what was happening when my drink hit the floor causing the glass to break with a deafening sound.