Changing Up What's My Line? This Week

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One of our Seasonal Challenges was the QuoteMe Challenge, and it produced some good stories.  I thought this week I'd hearken back to that and give you two quotes to work with.  Craft a story from one of these, not necessarily including it verbatim, but utilizing the spirit of the quote.  Of course you can use the quote if you wish, or paraphrase it fit the story.
Gen, 500 word minimum, with posting week after next... July23-27.

"Always borrow money from a pessimist, he won't expect it back."

Oscar Wilde

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."

Woody Allen