Reminds me of the anecdote from Herb Caen's column in the SF Chronicle years ago.
An older woman in a Mercedes is about to pull into a parking space when a young woman in a little sports car zips into is ahead of her. The girl gets out, smiles her beauty pageant smile and says "I guess I'm just younger and quicker." The older woman ploughs into the little car, nudging it out of the space and pretty much destroying the backend while only scratching the bumper on the Mercedes. She writes her insurance company on the back of a business card, tosses it into the sports car and says, "And I guess I'm just older and richer."
>My mom sent me this:
>
>We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the "seniors' special"
>was two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $1.99.
>"Sounds good," my wife said. "But I don't want the eggs."
>"Then I'll have to charge you two dollars and forty-nine cents
>because you're ordering a la carte," the waitress warned her.
>"You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the eggs?" my wife asked
>incredulously.
>"YES!!" stated the waitress.
>"I'll take the special then." my wife said.
>"How do you want your eggs?" the waitress asked.
>"Raw and in the shell," my wife replied.
>She took the two eggs home.
>DON'T MESS WITH SENIORS!!! We've been around the block more than
>once.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
