Pet Peeves

Sometimes companies try to redefine reality to shift liability away from their operations. It would be nice if just saying something would make it true … but that is...

“You can do it. We can help, ” confidently asserts the professional hardware store spokesman. Is that so? Has he seen me in action? Has he had the opportunity to...

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance...

I have already been nailed at least 4 times in MD by the $40 speed camera infraction. In each case, the speed limit was only 30 miles per hour and I was branded a...

I have always been a pen lover. I fixate on one particular pen that has the weight and appearance and ink flow that I prefer and I carry it with me every day. In...

Most of us are very experienced when it comes to ordering fast food from whatever chains we frequent. We are familiar with the menu options. We understand what...

Insurance is an industry that can get under everyone’s skin. Who really gets a sense of “perceived value” as they mail in their outrageous checks for various forms...

Normally people would characterize me as fairly laid-back, non-combatative, extremely patient . . . that is until someone messes with my favorite pen! I am quite...

Don’t you hate it when people preface some nasty remark with an insincere up-front apology – as if that justifies their tone or gives them leeway to be ungracious. I...

The burden of filling countless hours with TV programming has given rise to the annoying genre I disparage as “filler.” For example, every movie has its filler...

I am sure that you shudder along with me as Christmas continues to get attacked from various politically correct angles. I thought I would pass along a spoof holiday...

The large neon signs advertising gasoline prices cannot always be taken at face value. Often there is small print that cannot be read by the driver on the highway....