Tag Archives: Work

No Fortune For Me

October 21, 2016 · by · in Family, Society · Leave a comment

When I was seventeen I was offered the opportunity to become a millionaire. I turned it down. I have no regrets. It was 1973 and I was working at the time for the local McD‎onald’s, making the princely sum of $1.12 an hour. Summer was ending and I had decided not to return to school, […]

Harby

May 8, 2016 · by · in Society, Uncategorized · 1 Comment

I suppose an explanation is in order. Certainly a fellow blogger thought so, sending me an email asking if somehow something had been dropped from my post on stuffed animals. The short answer is no. I just didn’t think to explain myself. And I suppose I really should explain why my son’s stuffed toy rabbit, […]

The Award

February 15, 2016 · by · in Humour, Society · Leave a comment

Recognition is nice, especially when it comes from your employer, but Spanish civil servant Joaquin Garcia would probably have been happier if his name hadn’t come up for a long-service award. If not for that, maybe no-one would have ever asked the question as to where he was. Garcia had managed to do what many […]

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