Riding With the Dead
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles issued driver’s licenses to 1,905 dead people. The Boston Globe It was one of those miscues that causes you, in retrospect, to slam your palm to your forehead […]
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Spirit Airlines Will Begin Charging for Emergency Oxygen on July 1st
Yesterday, Spirit Airlines confirmed widespread rumors that passengers will soon have to pay a fee to use the drop-down emergency oxygen mask located above their seat. The 75-cent charge will provide 15 minutes of uninterrupted […]
For Victims of Post-Ice Cream Truck Syndrome
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. Jim Hutchinson would prefer it if you set your cell phone on vibrate and kept your handheld device on mute. He doesn’t like car horns, and when he goes to work every […]
Ma Bell Reincarnated- “Resistance Is Futile!”
Actual Communication With My Phone Company: Chat with AT&T Good Evening, ROGERMa Bell Sunday 07:49 PM AT&T 7:46 PM Hi, thanks for chatting with the AT&T virtual assistant. What brings you here today? 7:46 PM I […]
Scooter & Skipper Celebrate Father’s Day
The landline rings, waking me from the first of my two (2) allotted naps of a Sunday. I normally wouldn’t pick up–it’s usually a local financial planner who drops the call as soon as he […]
Breakthrough Promises to Make Unibrow a Thing of the Past
PITTSBURGH, Pa. A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School has isolated the gene responsible for synophrys, the phenomenon known as “unibrow,” giving hope to sufferers from the affliction that their children […]
Summer Jobs for Cats
It’s the end of the first really hot day of the summer. I take off my coat, drop my briefcase and turn around to find the usual scene; two cats sleeping. Rocco, the young tuxedo […]