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A simple one today, already being addressed by others:

If you need to use the phone, pull over somewhere safe, then use it.

If you need to read directions, pull over somewhere safe, then read them.

If you need to discipline your children, pull over somewhere face, continue when they have calmed.

If you need to put on [...]

So, last night we decided to go out to dinner at a chain Seafood restaurant that originated in Florida. Like many chain restaurants, whether on the low or high end of chains, some are good, some aren’t. This one is, in theory, on the higher end of the chain. For the most [...]

“It was only vandalism, no big deal.”

“He was just a kid, stealing a bike was no big deal, part of growing up.”

I’m sick of those words, thank goodness I hear them less and less.

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It is not just part of growing up.

It is not no big thing.

It is a big thing.

Intentionally destroying someone’s property [...]

In many neighborhoods, no one knows each other, not well enough to know their job, their life pleasures, their needs. Their pleasures, we don’t need to know – those are the spice of life, we can come up with our own spice in life. But to know their jobs is also [...]

I’m trying to figure out why so many of us get so irritated with people on cell phones in public places. We don’t get irritated if the are carrying on a conversation with someone that is standing there. Or, do we?

It may be that many of those on cell phones are carrying on [...]

Road markings such as dividing lines and stop bars need to be kept up.

In large shopping centers the speed limits may be extremely low, but accidents can still happen. the main aisles or roads leading in do not always have stop signs when they cross each other, most rely simply on yellow stop [...]

Housing standards are important, especially in this day of mega storms and hundred year storms that come more often than predicted. I understand that people who have put a lot of time and effort into maintaining their home don’t want a junk trailer and piles of cars in their vision every time they step [...]

We attended another RV show. (What can I say, exercise and new knowledge rolled into one.) Saturday we walked for two hours, Sunday, another four. The bad news, first. There were not as many visitors as normal, perhaps, because another RV show had been at the same venue this year already. (Or maybe [...]

I admit, I am one who does not want a sales employee around me until I either have a question that can’t be answered by reading the information on the box or invoice or I am ready to buy. I do, however, expect, even want, a simple greeting followed by an I am here [...]