FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY

A friend of mine turned 50 today and when I called to say Happy Birthday, it reminded me of the day I turned 50. I didn't mind reaching that significant milestone. Actually, I just couldn't believe I had lived A HALF A CENTURY. I remember waking up and thinking that it just didn’t seem possible that I had lived so many years.

But then again, when I turned 50, Reader’s Digest sent me a letter wishing me a happy 50^th. And I was so mad at them for flaunting my age, I canceled my subscription !!!!!

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INDIAN RESTAURANT

Although I retired several years ago, once or twice a year I meet a few of the women I formerly worked with for dinner. Occasionally, we meet at the Olive Garden and I always enjoy my meals. But my friends love Indian food and we occasionally, meet at one of the local Indian restaurants. Unfortunately, I hate Indian food. I just don’t care for curry or the Indian spices.

The first couple of times, I asked my daughter who does like Indian food to recommend something I might like. But that didn’t do any good, I just didn’t like the taste of the food I ordered. But last week when my friends and I met for our long overdue dinner at an Indian restaurant, I decided to ask the waiter if there were any foods on the menu that had NO cury or Indian spices.

Lucky for me he suggested the appetizers and there were several that appealed to me. I ended up ordering their chicken strips deep-fried in a peanut batter. And when they arrived at the table, I was pleased that they not only looked good, but they tasted great. Now I won’t have to dread our bi-annual dinners at an Indian restaurant.

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LIBRARY CARD

About 10 years I started making weekly trips to the library to borrow books on tape. Since then I have enjoyed listening to hundreds of books. But today as I pulled up to the library I realized I had forgotten to bring my library card. This has never happened to me, but I had changed purses and unfortunately I left my card in the other purse.

I assumed they might not give me the books, but hoped they knew me well enough to check out the books without the card. I certainly did not have time to go home and make a second trip to the library. To my surprise, I explained to the woman at the desk what happened and she told me it was no problem at all. In fact, she has checked so many books for me over the past several years, that she didn’t even ask my name.

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TRIP TO CHICAGO

My daughter, Cathy, my grandson, Jacob, and I drove to Chicago today to visit my son, Rick, and his family. As Jacob just turned 16 in October and passed his driving test the following week, I knew he would enjoy driving my car and so I gave him my keys and off we drove. However, I did choose to sit in the back seat. I would let Mom sit in the front seat to “supervise.” Jacob is a good driver and didn’t really need any supervision, except he’s a teenage boy and as you would expect, every so often Mom had to remind him to slow down.

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VISITING LILY

Tomorrow, my daughter, Cathy, and I are driving to Chicago to visit my son, Rick, my daughter-in-law, Jen, and my two year-old granddaughter, Lily. I don’t get to see Lily often and so I always look forward to our visits. But tomorrow’s visit may have special significance.

Recently Jen sent me a photo of Lily wearing a cute little pink sweatshirt type jacket. I smiled when I saw it, because I own a very similar jacket. And so, I plan to wear it tomorrow and hope Jen will take a photo of Lily and me wearing our matching jackets. We will surely look just like twins …..

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GAS STATION SURPRISE

I’ve known for a long time that when a car with a disabled license plate drives up to a gas station, the law requires the gas station attendant to fill the gas tank, but only charge the driver the lower self-serve gas price. Although I’ve had M.S. for 40 years, I can pump my own gasoline and so I always have. However, today when I pulled into the gas station, where I have purchased gas for years and years, one of the staff came up to my car, before I got out and offered to pump the gas for me.

I greatly appreciated his thoughtful gesture and thanked him very much. In addition, when he finished I told him to tell his boss to give him a raise. But I smiled when he replied, “Oh, I just got one last week!”

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