January 2013
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TOSS A COIN
I’m always on the lookout for pennies in the street. Once I picked up several dollars along with some cigarette butts and candy wrappers at a drive-thru. The young cashier actually thanked me for ‘cleaning the place up.’ She had no interest in retrieving those coins from the mucky street. None. That’s the problem with… Read more
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TO KNOW, OR NOT TO KNOW; THAT IS THE ANSWER
45 years ago, an American Airlines stewardess at La Guardia airport, ushered me on to a departing, cross-country flight for which I had no reservation, no ticket and no money. She did not follow the rules or protocol despite the fact that I was clearly a minor. Instead, she ran back into the plane, alerted… Read more
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HAPPY ‘OLD’ YEAR
Well, now that the super rich are going to keep the rest of us from falling off the fiscal cliff, consider this: our elderly are going back into the workplace faster than you can shake a cane. Today alone, I was helped by more gray hairs than young folk. Walking into the supermarket, the stock… Read more