Paul Murray's weblog, with news you may have missed and my $0.02 worth on a number of topics.

"You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it."
- Art Buchwald

I bet you don't have a friend who's an acupuncturist

E-mail me: pmurray63 [at] hotmail.com (Be patient, I don't check it often.)

Mixed blessings. I stopped at McDonald's the other night for dinner and ordered one of my regular combinations from the dollar menu. The total was less than the usual amount, so I naturally suspected that the girl misunderstood my order (this happens to me a lot).

I scanned the receipt to figure out the reason for the reduced cost, and discovered they had charged me only 69 cents for the small Coke. I mentioned this to the girl, who helpfully explained that she had rung me up for a "senior Coke."

For the record, I don't qualify for that category even by AARP's generous standard (50), and won't for several years.

Labels: aging, mixed blessings

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