Rest with the Angels, John Glenn.
About every month or so, sometimes two, life gives you a kick in the butt. I got my Nov-Dec kick, when, during a period of two weeks, I carried an Oral-B Model 1000 electric toothbrush around to two Wal-Mart stores and a CVS drug store looking for replacement brushes. No luck. At the CVS a sales lady helped select some brushes and said they would fit my model. I asked to try them. She said I had to buy them first, so I did. Then we cut the package open, they didn’t fit, and she reversed the sale. After “no luck” at the second Wal-Mart, I tried to order on-line. I learned Braun stopped making the Model 1000 in July 2015 and are now selling a upgraded version: the Oral-B Pro 1000. No one in the three stores knew the Model 1000 was discontinued.
A man, in his 80s, walked strangely when he came to breakfast one morning. His wife immediately went on alert. When he finished and walked away from the table he walked in the same odd way. The worried wife called 911 and took him to the ER. She waited and started calling family. Shortly a young doctor came out of the ER smiling and told the wife her husband was OK. “He just put both legs in one opening of his underpants and when he finishes re-dressing he will be out.”
Dreams do come true department: Henry McMaster, an attorney, former federal prosecutor and currently South Carolina Lieutenant Governor, will finally achieve his long held dream of being Governor when Governor Nikki Haley is confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; she having been chosen by President-elect Donald Trump. McMaster, one of the most aggressive self-promoters in S.C. politics is likely to start campaigning for a full term as Governor in 2018 while he serves the last two years of Haley’s term.
When he was U.S. Attorney for South Carolina, Mr. McMaster was the master of the press release and self promotion. According to Wikipedia: “His actions were criticized as transparently political, with journalist Lee Bandy writing that ‘no one can recall any other U.S. attorney being so public-relations conscious’ and noting that McMaster had produced more press conferences and news releases than all of his predecessors combined.”
Self-promotion worked for Mr. Trump, and Mr. McMaster was one of his earliest S.C. supporters.
