business meeting in shorts
For our most recent anniversary, Allison and I gave one another some sessions with a trainer. Our trainer moved gyms, so we moved with him to a gym slightly farther from us (20 minutes away). It happened that today Allison and I had a business meeting (with the same person) …
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Valentine’s card
When Allison opened her Valentine’s card from me, she started laughing. Vigorously. Once she could calm down enough so she could speak, she told me that that’s the same card that I gave her last year. I guess I think it’s a great card!
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$200 later, not much to show for it
Fran, my mother-in-law, went to the store to get ingredients for turkey chili and quinoa mango salad. $200 later she came back home without the turkey for the turkey chili, and without the mango for the quinoa mango salad. (btw, I can relate – that’s one of the reasons I …
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I can’t multiply!
I was finishing up my run today, listening to the book Thinking, Fast and Slow and the author asked the listener to multiply 17×24. I immediately “knew” that the answer was close to 4,000 (which is totally wrong), but the pretty incredible part is that after the author asked the …
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Car closet
Today I came home from a meeting and when I went to hang my sport coat in the bedroom closet, I realized I had left its hanger in the car. So I went back to the car, as always thinking of something else, and next thing I knew, I found …
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Barely got strawberries
I left the house to get groceries. I got to the farmers market, negotiated the price for the box of strawberries, and when I went to pay, I realized I had left my wallet at home… got home and back within 10 minutes before the farmers market was closed (all …
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Latte Nebula
The wife called as I was one person away from reaching the cashier to order my latte, so I asked her whether she could hold one minute while I ordered a coffee and I’d be right back. I ordered the coffee. A half hour later I got a call from …
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Forgot the Mother-in-Law
As we were leaving Hobee’s today after brunch, my mother-in-law said “I remember, I better get into this car quickly.” She was referring to the time we were getting into the car to go somewhere. I got behind the wheel, put on my seat belt, and started driving. My mother-in-law, …
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Seabiscuit
I saw a Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand book lying around and I thought ‘Hmmm, I think my dad would like this book‘, and then I realized that father’s day is coming up. So I filled out a card, gave it to Allison to sign, and wrapped the card and book. …
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Unplanned cab ride to the airport
My classmate David left his house yesterday morning to drive to the airport and realized he had no keys to his car, and that he was locked out of his house. So he decided to take a cab to the airport so he could make his plane to come to …
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