This may seem a little more offbeat than our usual stories, but over the weekend I was dining with a friend in an upscale restaurant when he asked the waiter for a plate of pickles as an appetizer.  I didn’t think anything about it at first, and just giggled and munched a pickle with him when they arrived.  When the waiter came to refill my water glass, I asked him for a slice of lemon.  My friend, however, asked for a couple of...

Ever heard that old phrase “once in a blue moon?”  But what is a blue moon, really? Contrary to popular belief, a blue moon is not a full moon that appears to have a soft bluish-white glow.  People have been using the phrase ‘once in a blue moon’ since the 1800s to describe something that rarely happens, such as the moon appearing to be colored blue, but this was not always the case and isn’t the most likely source of the...

We go about our lives every day not realizing that we are participating in mundane activities of daily living. For example, when you get onto an elevator, you go to an open spot and turn to face the door. What happens when someone doesn’t follow this normal protocol of elevator behavior? Let’s say it’s early morning in a busy office building and someone gets onto an elevator in pajamas, stands by the door in the middle and...

I would be walking down the street and I see someone from a distance and yell out to them…”hey,don’t I know you”! And it happens to be someone I don’t know but also a cross-dresser. I enter the corner store and see a child with it’s mom at the slurpee machine and of course children do not wait on their parents for assistance. This child took not one cup but two cups and tried to get every flavor of...

Teenage boys are a menace to society. They occupy the twilight zone between childhood, adulthood and hoodlumhood. They listen to the wrong music, they forget Mother’s Day and they live in squalor. There seems to be little reason to house and feed these perfect eating machines. Consider my neighbor’s kid, Patrick. His parents insist that there was a time when Patrick was beautiful. He looked forward to bath time. He loved Sesame Street....