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Butch Furse
If you can stick around long enough, you never fail to have a new experience happen nearly every day. As we get older the new experiences may not be too exciting, but they do challenge your complacency by either becoming an irritant or leaving you with a good feeling. This past week we were fortunate to be left with about not only one good feeling, but about two “good feelings.”
First, let us fill in a little background. About a month ago we made a purchase that offered a significant mail-in rebate. Generally, we don’t go for those mail-in rebates because the paperwork is too complex and the company could not proceed with the rebate because our application was inadequate; or the rebate just got lost in the mail.
However this time a rebate check did come in the mail. And this time the check could be cashed with no problems. Of course the Betterhalf handled the check. And to my amazement she spent the check on purchases at the local grocery store putting food on our table for both of us.
We mentioned earlier we had two good things happen in the same time frame. The second concerned a warranty concerning our kitchen sink faucet. This faulty faucet emphasized the advantage to getting old is the fact a lifetime product warranty is something that can be useful. And in our case we’re around to see the new faucet put to use.
It makes you feel pretty good when you can “outlive” the warranty on a kitchen sink faucet. Ah . . . simple rewards for a simple guy!
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It may be because we do a lot of walking, but we catch ourselves checking the weather forecast a couple times a day. With her cell phone the Betterhalf can read off an hourly report of what’s next on our local weather scene as we walk. By golly, it’s pretty accurate.
The past couple of weeks with this surge of hot weather the TV analyists began to irritate me. If the high temps they’ve been reporting aren’t bad enough, they now calculate the dew points or humidity to tell what the temperature “really feels like” instead of just giving us the simple old thermometer reading.
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Don’t itch for something you’re not willing to scratch for.
RL Furse is publisher emeritus of the News-Register
