Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of October 27, 2019 0

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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of October 27, 2019

October 27, 2019
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Twain
October 28, 2019
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Gates
October 29, 2019
“Loyal customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you.” – Bell
October 30, 2019
“Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.” – Benson
October 31, 2019
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” – Nightingale
November 1, 2019
“Authenticity is the alignment of the head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.” – Secretan
November 2, 2019
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Coelho

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So, Let's consider: Why does it take 30 minutes to get your prescription ready? 0

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So, Let’s consider: Why does it take 30 minutes to get your prescription ready?

OK, so lucky me picks up the broncho bug du jour this weekend. In between coughing my head off today I wandered into the doc in a box down the street. I figured they’d give me a shot and write me a script for some eye of newt and I’d be on my way. Why they want to give me a shot in my butt for a problem in my head and chest is something I didn’t really understand, but then, I really wasn’t well enough to get into a long debate on the subject.
Alas, they called in one med and gave me a hard copy script for the cough syrup since it contains some good stuff…and off to my local Walmart across the street I go.
Upon presenting my paperwork I’m told it’s going to be 30 minutes before my script is ready. Why it take 30 minutes to count out a few pills and pour up a potion every time I visit there I’ll never really understand. However, putting my MBA to use it’s clear to me that they want to me meander around the store, and hopefully in my sick stupified state I’ll find some other items they have for sale that I just gotta buy. Sorry, you got the wrong guy for this marketing scheme.
I’m a normal guy. I don’t like shopping. I really hate it more when they move stuff in a store in order to encourage me to meander through many additional aisles to not only reorient myself as to where what I want is, but in the hopes I’ll find something I don’t need and buy it. Generally pisses me off more than anything. If it takes me longer to find what I want and hit the cash register line than it does to walk from my truck to the front door, I’m wasting time. And the topic of only one lane open at a Walmart is a topic for another time.
SO, I’m stuck at Walmart for 30 minutes while the chemist counts out the pills…what to do.
Using my calibrated eyeball, I estimated that the inner perimeter of the store is about 1/5th to 1/4th of a mile. So, if I walked 4 or so laps around the inside of the store I’d have walked my daily mile while waiting for my pills and potions. And since we’re talking Walmart, you never know what you’re going to see that’s not on sale…some of which I’m sure you’re going to regret seeing.
So, that’s what I do. When I have a script to pickup, I have my saw bones send the script to Walmart. I could use any of several smaller local chemists, but the inside diameter of their stores isn’t big enough for me to be able to enjoy my walk…and yes, I know I could do additional laps to make up for the length distance…but why? I’d only be seeing the same stuff I don’t want to buy more frequently.
By the way, grab a grocery cart to take with you and throw something in it so you look like an official shopper…and good luck dodging all those huge carts being filled with stuff for other patrons to come in and pickup that are just too damn lazy to do their own shopping…or maybe their lives are just so super packed with incredibly important stuff, like curing the common cold without having to wait 30 minutes for your pills to be counted…

I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of October 20, 2019 0

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of October 20, 2019

October 20, 2019
Pernicious – n. – harmful, destructive, noxious
October 21, 2019
Aborigine/Aboriginal – adj.- natives, first inhabitants
October 22, 2019
Cerebration – n. – thinking, using the brain
October 23, 2019
Maimed – adj. – disabled, mutilated, crippled
October 24, 2019
Obviate – n. – prevented, made unnecessary, avoided
October 25, 2019
Nexus – n. – blinded force, link, tie
October 26, 2019
Salient – n. – noticeable, outstanding, important

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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of October 20, 2019 0

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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of October 20, 2019
October 20, 2019
The only thing permanent is change.
October 21, 2019
Children learn more when learning is fun.
October 22, 2019
The bizarre can appear cool if it is in fashion.
October 23, 2019
Make sure you leave some kind of positive mark with your life.
October 24, 2019
Eat your honey, but stop when you’re full.
October 25, 2019
Never deprive someone of hope.
October 26, 2019
Learn an art where you can cultivate beauty.

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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of October 20, 2019 0

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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of October 20, 2019

October 20, 2019
“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; We hire smart people to tell us what to do.” – Jobs
October 21, 2019
“If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.” – Greene
October 22, 2019
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – Wooden
October 23, 2019
“Empathy is the only human superpower – it can shrink distance, cut through social and power hierarchies, transend differences, and provoke political and social change.” – Thomas
October 24, 2019
“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.” – Robbins
October 25, 2019
“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his hsare of the credit.” – Maxwell
October 26, 2019
“Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. you can grow flowers, or you can grow weeds.” – Anon

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of October 13, 2019

October 13, 2019
Paranoiac – n. – subject to delusions of hostility
October 14, 2019
Mundane – adj. – commonplace, practical, earthly
October 15, 2019
Aquiline – adj. – curved, hawk like
October 16, 2019
Contemporary – n. – those of the same age, his coevals
October 17, 2019
Ignominious – n. – shameful, dishonorable, despicable
October 18, 2019
Convivial – n. – sociable, jovial, companionable
October 19, 2019
Peccadillo – n. – triffling errors, faults, weaknesses

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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of October 13, 2019
October 13, 2019
Work with what you have.
October 14, 2019
Have a passion for what you are doing.
October 15, 2019
When you follow your heart, life becomes joyful.
October 16, 2019
Time becomes more precious when there is less of it.
October 17, 2019
Get rid of the fat.
October 18, 2019
Feel sorrow, but don’t sink under its oppression.
October 19, 2019
Follow your hearts desire and it will lead you to great adventures.

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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of October 13, 2019 0

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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of October 13, 2019

October 13, 2019
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.” – Rohm
October 14, 2019
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Angelou
October 15, 2019
“Our brain is like velcro for negative experiences, but teflon for positive ones.” – Hanson
October 16, 2019
“Diversity – the art of thinking independently together.” – Forbes
October 17, 2019
“A reflective reading of history will show that no man ever rose to military greatness who could not convince his troops that he put them first, above all else.” – Taylor
October 18, 2019
“Two monologues do not make a dialog.” – Daly
October 19, 2019
“If everyone is thinking alike, then sombody isn’t thinking.” – Patton

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So, Let's consider: Is there an alternative to banks that charge those high ATM fee$ 0

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So, Let’s consider: Is there an alternative to banks that charge those high ATM fee$

OK, so I’m scanning through last Friday’s (October 4, ’19) USA Today’s Money section and there on page one is an article by Paul Davidson lamenting how much more people are going to get hit with bank higher ATM fees and increased fees. And, he’s right!
Face it, a bank already HAS your money so they can keep as much of it via new and improved, at least for them, fees that syphon money from your pocket to theirs as fast as their computers will let them! Monthly “maintenance fees”, “imaging fees”, ATM fees, statement fees…hell, I’m waiting for them to have a fee for charging you all those fees!
It amazes me just how many people will WILLINGLY pay a bank a fee to get their money out of the bank! Think about that for a moment! Is that a racket or what?
But, there is an alternative. Frankly one that I was really annoyed and surprised that Davidson’s ignorance totally missed in his article. But, then, considering how many ads for banks his paper runs it would probably get censored by the sales department.
I’m talking about good old Credit Unions. With my Credit Union I don’t have those ripoff ATM fees (provided I use one of their ATM’s). I don’t have minimum balance ripoff fees that continue to drain my balance until there’s nothing left to drain. I don’t have those “maintenance fees”. In fact, I don’t have any fees at all, and I don’t have a minimum balance issue either! TAKE THAT BANK DuJour!
So, if you’re tired of being ripped off by all those banking fees, CLOSE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, and open an account at a credit union! There’s plenty to be found! And, there’s no reason not to!
But then, if you’re as dumb as Davidson seems to be, you can just go right on with your bank…and pay all those fee$ and make your bank really happy to take your money as fast as you’ll let them.
After all, it’s only money…YOUR MONEY!

I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of October 6, 2019 0

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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of October 6, 2019

October 6, 2019
Platitude – adj. – commonplaces, cliches, truism
October 7, 2019
Salacious – n. – lustful, obscene, lecherous
October 8, 2019
Resilient – n. – elastic, springy, rebounding
October 9, 2019
Incongruous – n. – unsuitable, inharmonious, ill-assorted
October 10, 2019
Effervescent – n. – lively, bubbling, vivacious
October 11, 2019
Disconcerted – n. – confused, taken by surprise, embarrassed
October 12, 2019
Antithesis – adj. – opposite, contrast

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