Positives & Negatives
Here’s an American kid who understands marketing:
He’s selling root beer — and business is booming.
And here’s a young English woman men should seriously consider courting. Rather than buy an expensive dress she would wear only once, she wore her mom’s wedding dress to her prom:
And now two negative items follow those positives: In 2017 NYC mayor Red Billy de Blasio vowed to crack down on parking placard abuse. There were 67,297 in 2008, well before he was first elected. There are now 121,000 in use. Must be the new math. (nypost.com)
Is it me or does it seem like there are a lot of stories about flesh eating disease these days? There also seems to be a lot more people dying young than usual. I’ve just received word that an old friend, early 60’s, who’d moved to Florida, succumbed to a heart attack. This on the heels of another the same age passing away a couple of weeks ago, and my third youngest niece, only 57, a few months ago. For decades life expectancy increased. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s now trending down. Maybe it just seems that way due to all the sad posts on social media. Four of my childhood friends will never see a dime of what they contributed to Social Security. Another, two weeks older than me, passed away months before his 69th birthday. Many times I’ve mentioned the 30 or so young men five to 15 years younger than me who hung out at the P.S.101 schoolyard, who bought into the drug culture, and have perished through the years. Lately, opioids have taken many nationwide.
I’m happy to report that I survived setting up shop in today’s heat and high humidity. I had to do it gingerly, as I somehow tweaked my lower back, left hip. The pain is mild. The trick is not to let it increase. Right now it seems no worse. My thanks to Marina, who insisted on paying for two books in Russian despite donating two; and to the young man who bought a pictorial on American art that had Grant Wood’s American Gothic on the cover; and to the gentleman who purchased Stephen King’s 11/22/63; and to The Quiet Man, who went home with the DVD of The Reader (2008) and three CD’s I burned long ago for my jukebox, which stopped working and was junked.
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