Reflective Ruminations, Fletcher Dodge

Reflective Ruminations for April 8, 2016

• I think "beaver" is a terrible slang term to use for a woman's … adorable son in the late 1950s.
  
  
• Some people look at a glass and say, "It's not half empty, it's half full." Then they get throat-punched by me.
  
  
• Here's something they won't teach you in History class: GEOMETRY.
  
  
• It doesn't really bother me when people say "et cetera," but I get really annoyed by people who say "et cetera, et cetera."
  
  
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  It seems like we're all putting a LOT of faith in the guy who came up with the original alphabetical order.

3AM Observation: In the motel lobby

Scene: Sitting in the lobby of a Best Holiday Super Motel Inn, late evening, getting some work done on my laptop.

Old guy walks in and takes a seat on the lobby sofa. He's wearing a WWII service veteran's cap with the name of the Navy ship on which he served. Elastic waist band struggles to hold in a pot belly. Puffy eyes and blotchy skin.

Observation: The sound of an old guy sucking saliva out of his ill-fitting dentures sounds precisely and uniquely like an old guy sucking saliva out of his ill-fitting dentures.

tagged: observation, saliva, false teeth, dentures