Why do I have 300 neckties that aren't mine in my trunk?

A reasonable question. In the back seat are 12 business suits of various sizes and several dress shirt, also not mine.

The reason is: I am the director of a non-profit, and one of the projects I'm doing helps young people in poverty learn basic skills for interviewing, landing and keeping a job. We talk about respecting the employer -- even if the job is for digging ditches, we want the kids to dress as nicely as possible for an interview. Show the potential employer that you care enough about the job to dress up.

Problem is, most of these folks, mostly late teens and early 20s, rarely have business ware. So I collect business clothing from people who donate it to the young people. I recently picked up a huge donation from a Rotary Club. It's still in tthe car.

Best line on the site (and there are many great ones to choose from):

Few sentences in the English language bespeak a mysterious dark side than: “I’m not allowed in there. And, quite frankly, I don’t blame them.”

I could have proven him wrong, too.

Way back when (1990) I was a groomsman in a friend's wedding. I decided to get a high and tight clip before the wedding. Well, for some reason, this long patch of hair remained above my left ear and i didn't notice it until I got home.

Deciding to take matters into my own hands, I borrowed some clippers and a hand mirror, reckoning I had a steady hand and the ability to work with the reflection.

Long story short, I stood in front of everyone in the church looking like someone had gone upside my head with a 9-iron.

I also lerned that hair gel will not act as hair glue and stick fallen hair back onto your head. It still seems to me that should have worked.

Actually I do not go to VT now. I graduated in 1989, worked there 1998-2000 and will always have my heart in Blacksburg -- once a Hokie, always a Hokie -- but I am no longer a student.

Do you remember where you got this fabulous chicken? There was a good family-owned steak place where they paid you to eat the chicken breast filets. That seems odd, but if you wanted the salad bar, ordering it as a meal was $4.49, but if you ordered the chicken it was $3.99 and the salad bar came with it.

Hmm. Guess I'll go ahead and have the chicken.