So many things in my life have been spoiled by other people interfering or sometimes merely being present.

Often,

when I have to decide between eating this unhealthy thing or that unhealthy thing,

I choose

both.

I thought that

when I retired,

I would have time.

But the days pass

in a flash,

and I accomplish

a fraction

of what I intended.

Looking back over my fashion choices years ago it's very easy to feel rather embarrassed.  Especially since at the time I thought I was parading around in the height of fashion.


I generally can dismiss it with the perennial, "I was young and didn't know any better."


But it is one reason, of many, (and a relatively minor one), that I find the whole fashion industry so loathsome. 

Google removed the "Next Blog" button.


Why would they do that?


How will I find new blogs to read?

In my life I've learned that if you "lend" something to someone you need to expect to never get it back.

I usually try to avoid using self-checkout machines in grocery and drug stores because I'd rather help keep human jobs going.


My first choice of cashier is always an older woman because they're the most pleasant and the most efficient.


I will go to a male cashier of any age as a second choice.


What I always try to avoid are young women/girls.  They so often have such an attitude of surliness and behave as though it is asking the world to expect them to lift up an item and scan it.  It's like they feel that it is totally unfair that not only do they have to work but that they actually have to do something besides stand around looking bored.