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I
panicked when I read the above--what would I do without all the chat of
talkinbroadway.com??? I immediately emailed a group of people about
what was happening. I checked out sites like broadway.com and
playbill.com but they don't have the knowledgeable people that
allthatchat has. I was really very disappointed and then, corine of corinescorner.com came to the rescue when she sent me 'It is a joke april fools .' I was so relieved when I checked back that afternoon and there it was
working as usual! Hurray! I did walk around feeling foolish all day but,
like everything else I don't want to own up to, I blamed it on old age!
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(I look good--I don't care what you say!)

Every year I have to go to our manager's office and be recertified in
order to renew my lease. I wasn't expecting it to go up as my gross
income was the same as were my medical expenses so my jaw dropped when I
was told on March 23 that as of June 1, my renewable lease date, my
rent would be $89 less. I knew something was wrong, told the lady
handling it but she said it was right. I told myself not to say anything
and enjoy the break until they found out their mistake but then if it
wasn't until a year or two later, which is possible, I would get hit
with a walloping bill. Someone suggested I open an account and put that
$89 away--after I stopped laughing and caught my breath--ME! Put money
away? Saveit? LOL  Then someone said maybe I will die before they find
the mistake and I could be ahead of the game but that's not going to
happen.

I
went down to the office and spoke to the lady in charge, explained
where the mistake was and on March 30 I signed a new lease keeping it at
the same rent I paid last year. Would I have said nothing if I knew I
could get away with it? Reading of all the cuts the Florida Republicans
will pass that will affect me I don't think I would. I paid enough taxes
in one decade to cover my 'pay backs' until I am 82!

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Things
are so bad that books are being published about how rude/nasty we have
become in the USA. The thought of the picture of the woman above giving
the finger, Betty White at 89 saying the things she does, TV shows with
titles such as '(*&^ My Dad said', people eating and drinking in the
legitimate theatre not to forget texting or keeping their cell phones
on in places they shouldn't and don't forget the daily rudeness we
encounter, and give to, working people.

Being
politically correct weren't catch words in the 50s and 60s and though
people may have used the F word about gays, the B word about women, the N
word about people of color, the K word about Jews, and so on, but it
wasn't done in 'public'. Yes women talked about sex but certainly not in
front of men and men respected women by saving their 'dirty'--yes, that
was what it was called--language when they were with a group of men, no
women present. And women didn't talk about the size of men's penises or
'female problems', which is the way they were referred to in public, to
men.

Salesclerks
ignore you, servers don't listen to you, people who depend on you to
earn a living treat you rudely/crudely and you don't say anything.
Bloggers at one web site use foul language, have no respect for each
other and they think it is all right.

Children
are rude to adults in more ways than just calling them by their first
name but back talk their parents, teachers and other without
consequences.

When
did adults stop using manners? When do parents stop teaching their kids
manners? When did being civil to other human beings, whether you know
them or not, disappear? What happened to ladies and gentlemen?

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"And in the sweetness of friendship

let there be laughter,

and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things

teh heart finds its morning

and is refreshed."

Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931  Lebanese Poet, Artist and Mystic

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