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You'd think I were part of a comedy routine with some of the random things I have told people. Sometimes, there's nothing worse than an introvert who can't seem to be understood when he speaks his native language. For whatever reason, when I say that I was a German major in college, people seem to think that I was in the military of that...

So I paid off two credit cards and asked the teller how I could get an ATM card. "You mean a debit card?" she asked. "Yeah." "You can either do it online. Or you could call the bank. Or you could make an appointment with one of our customer associates." So I'm about to hit the door while looking bewildered and two employees that were chatting...

I had an English professor in the early 80s who had returned home (NYC) after teaching in Texas. She still had the Lone Star plates on her car. She was teaching poetry (that is to say, teaching her students how to write it). She shared a piece of a poem she had written about the husband she had divorced: Death is the price of life. Lives...

Yes. I am Caucasian (or, if you prefer, white). And there is always cooked rice in a glass container in the refrigerator. Most of the time, the rice is white. All of the time the rice had been cooked on the gas stove top [IMG]for 18 minutes followed by 5 minutes of rest time before it's (re-)moved from the pot. The rice sticks and clumps....

It did seem odd at times how the abuse I was receiving in Oakwood Hospital Dearborn (now closed) was so well-planned. Clearly designed to do the most harm and be abuse of the worst kind. I knew the staff all had degrees in psychology, but the patients seemed to have that skill too. I guess I know now that was no accident. Same with all the...