Huh? What's Up With That?

  hello, welcome to ...                                   For the first time since I was 12 years old, I am not:   Serving sandwiches and nickel bottles of  Coca Cola  to mostly older ladies at a church-sponsored bingo game.  Delivering newspapers  in my neighborhood .  The Indy paper was 30 cents a week, 50 cents including the Sunday edition.  Pouring A & W Root Beer or soft drinks  for customers who wanted curbside service at mom and dad's drive-in restaurants.    Making family and friends feel like they had to buy Christmas Card s which were a fundraiser like World's Finest Chocolate Bars .  They were $3.99 per dozen and I earned fifty cents for each package of 12 I sold.   Selling men's clothing  at  William H. Block Department Store.  I earned a dollar an hour and was paid in cash in an en...

  expiration dates...                   It is really very simple.  All of us have an expiration date.      HUH ?  What's up with that ?   But, who knows when the inevitable will happen?    The same is true when it comes to objects and things because they also come with an unknown expiration date.    Chrysler's K Cars, credited with saving the company from bankruptcy back in 1981 met their demise in 1995.    Did Philips and Sony engineers know their collaborative invention in 1979 would have such a limited engagement?  CDs are hard to find today.      Who knew iPods would end up with such a short shelf life?  The iPod Touch was discontinued in 2022, so, the once revolutionary music media didn't last all that long.      I thought Pet Rocks would be around for at least a couple years.  Turns out one year was even too much...