Word: hards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three befuddled senior citizens who swooshed around the ballroom wearing GARGAN'S GEEZERS T shirts. He compared the chairmanship to captaining the Titanic. "I don't want the damned job," he said. "But I'm not about to let this ship go down." Proof that he was a hard worker? He used to drive live chickens to market, a job that meant stopping every few minutes and beating the sides of the truck to keep the birds flapping and alive. During his speech, he listed his credentials as loving poker, pool and motorcycle rides and having...
...last time I went to the bank with a jar of pennies, the teller laughed so hard you'd have thought I was asking for a loan, not trying to make a deposit. Times have changed. The loan officer isn't friendlier. But the teller accepts every penny I find, and lately I've been looking under seat cushions. In case you haven't heard, there's a penny shortage. It's so severe that a bank in my neighborhood pays 55[cents] for 50 pennies, and some restaurants offer free desserts to anyone hauling in enough coin...
...zinc) or paranoid that stores will raise prices if we start rounding to the nearest nickel. Yet rounding is in force on military bases and in some foreign countries. Three and four get rounded to five; one and two get rounded to zero. Even Einstein would be hard-pressed to defeat that system. You round at the end, not item by item, and you wouldn't round at all if paying by check or credit card. Sure, Dunkin' Donuts could price a cup of coffee at 98[cents] and round up. But two cups would cost $1.96, which means rounding...
...biggest drawback: it's hard to get a Free-PC. More than 1 million people applied for the first 10,000, which were awarded by a secret formula the company refuses to divulge. (The company did lend me a unit to test, and I was asked to complete the application form.) Another 20,000 will go out by year's end, but odds are you won't win one. My advice: if you can't wait for the next Free-PC lottery, buy a $1,000 system from Gateway or Dell instead. You'll get a 400-MHz system with...
...fine.'" But her songs (all of which she wrote or co-wrote) never leave it there; they explore the conversation a smart soul has with herself when she's just said "fine" to her no-longer lover. And Richey's lyrics fill the tense, unspoken spaces with hard truths, wry rear views and a desperate lucidity...