One day a man was walking through a forest and got lost. "Nothing
could be worse than this," he said. Then it got dark. "Lost in
the dark. What could be worse?" he asked. Then it got cold.
"Now nothing could possibly be worse," he said as he shivered and
stumbled around. But then it began to rain. "How could anything
be worse than this?" he asked himself. But then the rain turned
to snow and the wind came up. "This is absolutely the worst
possible thing that could ever happen," he said. "There's nothing
left." But then he fell and broke his arm. "Well, that's it," he
thought. "This is the worst of all." But as he lay in the snow, a
tree branch broke off and fell on him, breaking both his legs.
"This is worse than the worst," he thought. "But at least nothing
else can happen." But then he heard the sound of wolves coming his
way. The noise was so startling that the man awoke and discovered
that he had been dreaming. "What a dream I had," he said, shaking
himself. "Nothing could be worse."