Remember back a couple of years ago when I started a petition to move Halloween to the last Saturday of October? Well, the people at the Halloween & Costume Association have stolen my idea and started a petition of their own! They only started their petition last year, so mine was first. That’s all the evidence I need. They stole it! To be fair, my petition did not gain much traction. I garnered a whole whopping four signatures. All of…
When I was a child my parents had a subscription to those Reader’s Digest magazines. Remember those? They were little book sized magazines with all types of articles in them. They always ended up on a shelf next to the toilet in our bathroom. So while I did my business, I would often leaf through them. Most of the articles didn’t interest me but some of the stories did. Of particular interest to me was the section called Humor in…
In a few days it will be July 4th, American Independence Day, and that reminded me of a story. I recently posted another story about friends I met through a local BBS. This is another tale from the BBS. But first, I’m writing this on July 1st, which is Canada Day. A few of my few readers are Canadians. So I’d like to acknowledge them. OK, back to this American tale. It was 1996 in Jacksonville, FL and the BBS…