The Right of Way

I have a plan to save a little bit of money. 

My current efforts to be thrifty have centered on car insurance. I changed providers and will save $240 this year.   

Enter AARP – we all know about this organization. Refusing to reply to any of their solicitations for a great many years, I eventually acquiesced. 

My new auto insurance provider tells me that I can save more premium costs if I take the AARP Driving Course designed specifically for those of us who – well, you know.

The online course is to take at least 6 hours. The description, “at least” is accurate. They say these words because it is not in their best interest to tell you exactly. If better informed, we older folk would simply say, "Pass."

I was expertly fooled, but I’m almost done.

A Matter of Degree

Towards the end of the TV show, a mother explains that she always tells her child, "Take what you need but give all you can." Kojak (2005) Season 1, Episode 2.

A feel-good ending and this capped it off nicely, I thought.  I was not in the mood to write and thought this would be a good way to complete my self-imposed deadline in a simple yet powerful way.  Just a quick check to see where this quote might have originated, and I am good to go.

Oops.

Words Matter: Part 1 of TBD

If you read last week's article, you'll remember that I offered no answers to the 'elusive lyrics' that were presented. During the week, I planned to reflect on each lyric starting with "On the dark side of good, there's evil".

I was stuck on that first line all week.  Every so often, I'd open a word document and jot down thoughts as the week unfolded.  I'm beginning to think that those four cryptic lines might evolve into a series of articles.  Then again, perhaps not.

Doing good is well, always good, right? The more I think about it, the more this theory seems to be false. I will start with a simple example.