The alternate title I considered for this silly piece was Google to the Rescue, but it sounds too much like an old episode of Lassie.
Hope you enjoy this true story.
The alternate title I considered for this silly piece was Google to the Rescue, but it sounds too much like an old episode of Lassie.
Hope you enjoy this true story.
Am I the only one who feels intimidated by the whole tipping thing? When? Where? How much? To whom? And especially, why?
As I reread my earlier post, “A wry look at busy, busy doctors” (aka “How to be a rotten doctor”), it made me think of a much earlier draft which was called “How to be a rotten teacher” instead.

…You be the judge! Me, I’m guilty of all of these!
This is a fond look (well, alternately fond/horrifying) back at an innocent time during the 1950s when I so longed to grow up, to be older. Silly me. Silly impatient me.
(This was previously published in a print mag which has since gone under. Please bow your heads for a moment of silence. Ok. You may read now. :-))
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