Unless I see her. Before I retired they realized the Fire Department was 800 building permit clearances behind, and gave me 2 special projects and assistants. I'm sitting in a huge 400 store mall, (I have always hated malls) with a couple of summer students and we are writing off permits. Some rotund unkempt grey haired overweight woman with a fat bald guy looks at me and says, "Imagine that you in a mall".

I look at the kids they look at me, and I shrug. Say something like "Everyone knows I hate malls, the whole freaking world." That evening something is bugging me so I phone my son who lives a few miles away and ask him what's new. "Mom says she saw you in the mall!"

Well my wife of 25 years is petite, still turns heads, and is a great musician. Can't cook but hey I can.

I realized a long time ago that you can make things better, just do it.

John Conley
Musica est vita