Now, THAT’s Peer Pressure I’ve probably been to two dozen or so major league baseball games in my lifetime, but until this summer I’d never seen fans, umm . . . “regurgitate” an opposing team’s home run ball. At least, that’s what it looked like. After a Tampa Ray homered into the left field stands at...Read More
“Ahh . . . So THAT’S What’s on the Credit Card Statement!” My wife and I have a household credit card — and an implicit honor system: I trust her to spend judiciously, and she trusts me to do the same. But that doesn’t mean we necessarily know everything the other purchases. Case in point: Zappo’s. A (female) colleague...Read More
From the Mouths of Babes [Editor’s Note: my blog posts the past week have more been more intermittent — and spiced with NY anecdotes — because I just returned from there. Memo to self: put away the sharp elbows and aggressive driving (adaptive in NY, but out-of-place in the more congenial, laid-back Midwest.] Compiling an exhaustive list...Read More
“Banking” Warm Weather With the days perceptibly shortening and the weather cooling, humans and animals alike are busy storing up for winter. So, squirrels turn their attention to gathering acorns and other food. What do people store? Time outside. Practically every Minnesotan I know who’s free today is doing something outside, enjoying the beautiful (and...Read More
Checkout Line Charity What kind of monster would answer the question — posed publicly at a checkout line in front of (many) other customers– “would you like to donate your change to starving orphans (or some such)?” with a callous “No, thanks.” Me. I can think of (at least) three reasons why. One. It’s manipulative (see above),...Read More
What does $14 buy you in Manhattan? A hot dog ($8) and Coke ($6) at Yankee Stadium. Or . . . round-trip bus fare to Philadelphia on either the Megabus or Bolt bus lines (I took the former). Not only was the (double-decker) bus clean, modern, and on-time — it had free Wi-Fi, too!Read More
