says that
she married
Mr. Right.
She just
didn’t realize
that my
first name
is Always.
WEEKEND TREAT- AN 8-LINE POEM AT THE END OF THE WEEK. A NEW TRADITION AT PEOPLE TOOLS.
Cutting Through the Fog
Yesterday afternoon the airplane carrying me from London was on approach to the airport in Palma, Majorca. As I looked through my window I was concerned that we were landing in a rather heavy fog, but I had confidence in ground radar and our pilots. After we landed safely I looked through a window on the opposite side of the plane, to see no fog at all. I looked back through my window. Heavy fog.
Was there fog on my side of the plane and not on the other? No. My window was fogged over, creating the impression of fog outside. Beyond my window the air was clear.
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Years ago I was at a comedy show in Inverness, Scotland, and remember one joke which was very funny but still cuts me to my core.
“I’m on a seafood diet,” the comedian said. “I see food, I eat it.”
I have always been on the plus side of the scale. When I was ten or eleven my father tried to help me lose a few pounds. We had a running “bet” – lose weight, he paid me, gain weight, I paid him. That arrangement ended when he realized I was manipulating the scale so that I could instantly “lose” between three and five pounds.
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