What You Haven't Read About The Presidential Debate

 I haven't blogged about politics for awhile and after the first Presidential Debate last night, it would be difficult not to write a few things.  I've watched a lot of debates over the years and I've read a lot about them too.(I just read about a very contentious debate that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had in the 2008 primary. The debate was in Myrtle Beach too!) 

It was an extraordinary night last night and a debate that will certainly be remembered for a long time.  When it ended I told my wife that if you thought the President got bad press now, wait until tomorrow.  Let's face it, it is difficult to find much praise for President Trump in the press and it's understandable-they mostly disagree with his views and he's made them an adversary from the very beginning of his campaign. So, here are a few positive things about President Trump's performance last night:

1.THE DEBATE WAS NOT BORING: All too often the complaint that people have is that it's not interesting.  When President Trump is on stage it is never dull and it's difficult to walk away because you're afraid you'll miss something.  He did this four years ago and last night was a repeat performance, but as President.

2. PRESIDENT TRUMP LOOKS PRETTY HEALTHY: A few weeks ago there were a lot of stories about his health.  I'm sure he's got some ailments that haven't been disclosed(physical), but for a 73 year-old man to perform at a peak energy/intensity level for ninety minutes with millions watching, I thought it was remarkable.  He would have been good with 70% of that intensity, but there are people twenty years younger who would have difficulty doing what he did last night.

3. WAS HE "SLEEPY JOE?" President Trump gave Joe Biden that nickname as he gave Jeb Bush four years ago the name, "low energy Jeb." I think President Trump's strategy was to be very animated which would make Joe Biden look very docile and for the most part it worked. This is his personality and Joe Biden's personality is very reserved and it was very visible last night.

4. JOE BIDEN DISAGREEING WITH THE FAR-LEFT: It was a strategy either President Trump came up with or someone in the campaign.  Several times Joe Biden was pushed to disagree with things the left want.  President Trump knows that maybe as many as 13% of Bernie Sanders supporters four years ago voted for President Trump and who knows how many of them did not vote at all.  If he can get the left to complain about Biden it can make all the difference in some of the critical states.  President Trump made it work last night several times.

5. PRESIDENT TRUMP TALKS DIFFERENTLY: You would think after five years in the political world, the media would recognize that President Trump does not answer questions directly and he doesn't like to give the person who asks the question, exactly what they want.  When he was asked to disavow White Supremacists, he said he would be willing to do it and when Joe Biden said, "The Proud Boys, " he told them they should, "stand down and stand by."  What does that exactly mean? It's anyone's guess, but to suggest he agrees with white supremacists or he is one, it's pure fantasy.

I have a funny Father's Day card hanging near my desk from my kids that makes fun of how he talks and it is funny. "You are the best father in the history of fathers. All the other Dad's? LOSERS! Total Disasters! Ask anyone.  They all know.  BELIEVE ME...  everyone agrees."

Four years ago Donald Trump was asked in a debate if he would accept the results of the election on election night and he answered, "I'll look at it then." He was crucified for refusing to say he would accept the results, but that's not what he said.  This year again he has been asked several times and he's giving pretty much the same answer-he'll look at it then. Considering how different this election is with so many ballots being mailed in, there's nothing wrong with his answer, except the way he communicates it. Let's face it, the chance of fraud will be much higher this year and the number of ballots that will be disqualified is also much higher.(over 1 million disqualified in 2016 Presidential Election)

Also, the media had no problem with Democrat Stacey Abrams refusing to concede her governor's rack in Georgia two years ago.  Recently Hillary Clinton publicly said that Joe Biden "should not concede the election if it's close." What President Trump said should be no big deal.

6. PRESIDENT TRUMP GOES ALL OUT TO WIN: One of the reasons President Trump was elected was that he outworked Hillary Clinton.  He gave more interviews, did more events, and put himself in front of more people. There are some of the same similarities in this election and last night he went all out in that debate and it was noticeable.

7. SUPREME COURT CHOICE: Finally, President Trump's first answer he handled well. I'll give him a lot of credit if he can get this done, but I personally don't think they should be doing it now. He did say last night that the Democrats would do the same thing in the same situation and he's absolutely right. It's called politics and this is the move to make for anyone if they can get it done.

Who won the debate? Joe Biden did have some good moments, especially defending his son and looking directly at the camera frequently. President Trump's personality makes it difficult for him to win a debate, but at times Joe Biden was rattled and stumbled over his words.  He did get through 90 minutes with President Trump, but he's going to have to do it two more times. Can he do it? Probably, but what if.....?

September Rider Stories

ANOTHER YOUNG DYNAMO: I have been fortunate to meet a number of very motivated and inspiring young people as I drive them to their destination.  I picked up a 23 year- old woman who needed a ride because she had been in a bad car accident and totaled her car and lost two teeth.  She had the teeth replaced immediately and didn't seem fazed by the bad experience.  She has three bartending jobs and is a manager of a retail store.  She grew up in foster care for ten years only a couple blocks away from where we live now.  She was the valedictorian of her high school class and told me, "I believe in being a victor, not a victim."  She believes she can learn anything she wants to learn and her goal in five years is to have her own funeral home.  She was an intern for a funeral home for two years and told me she had "embalmed 1,500 people." She wants to have her own place and will probably move out west in the future.  She told me that she's a "planner," and I'm pretty certain she's well on her way to being successful at anything she wants to do.

THE GIFT FROM THE BIRTHDAY BOY: I was down in the Charleston area and was leaving The Isles of Palms area when I had to turn around and pick-up two guys.  They were celebrating the one guy's 21st birthday and they had been drinking.  The birthday boy was living in the area, but how he got there was unusual to say the least. He said, ""I lived in Maryland and my girlfriend suggested we go on vacation in Charleston. I said no, because I didn't want to spend the money. Two weeks later I decided with a friend to move to the Charleston area without my girlfriend." We started talking about relationships and of course I gave him some advice which he really appreciated.  It wasn't a very long ride, but we were laughing and having a good time. I pulled up in front of their destination and he said, "This was the best Uber ride of all-time."(mine was his third Uber ride that day, the only one's he's ever had) They got out of the car and walked away and I was fixing something on my phone.  Suddenly, I realized he was walking back towards me and handed me a $20 bill and said, "thank you." I felt a little guilty and thanked him and made sure that he wanted to give me the generous tip.  How often does someone on their birthday give a generous gift?

THE RETURN OF TRIPP: More than a year ago a young, black guy got in my car and we really got along well.  He nicknamed himself Trrrip, because he said, "sometimes I'm a Trrrip."  He told me some personal stories and he really was a "Trrrip."  At the end of the ride he said I should have a nickname and he immediately named me Jeff-ro No-Fro. I thought it was hysterical and my very next rider was a few blocks away and I asked him if he thought it was funny.  I found out he was good friends with Trrrip and he called him on the phone. This nickname has gotten dozens of laughs from riders and people have said to me, goodbye Jeff-fro No-Fro.  One rider wrote on my app, "Jeff-Fro No Fro, you're my hero."

I've always wanted to pick Trrrip up again to thank him and tell him how many people enjoyed his line. This month I picked up a young guy near where Trrrip lived and I asked him if he knew Trrrip. "You picked me up before and you're taking me to his brother's house!" It was the same guy I picked up after Trrrip originally.  He called Trrrip up and I was able to talk to him on the phone as I was driving.  He said, "you made my day."  I told him, "you made my day."  It was so much fun talking with him again and being able to thank him for his funny comment.

(There are times I have someone with a lot of personality get in my car and it is impossible not to have a good time talking with them.  It's also impossible to remember and write down everything they say.  These are two people who would be a lot fun giving an hour ride to, if I'd be able to drive that far with them while I was laughing.)

PERSONALITY PLUS(FEMALE): The woman in the car was from Ohio and she was with her husband and a friend heading to the airport to go back home.  She dominated the conversation and was a lot of fun to listen to.  Some of her comments on the trip: "I was drinking Busch Lattees, that's how we say Busch Lite Beer in Ohio."  "My kids hate me because I'm so loud." She said to me, "You're my brother from another mother." That wasn't an original line, but it was still funny. "The only reason they love me at work is because I know everything and I do everyone's job."  Her husband seemed a bit embarrassed by her comments, but her friend said, "Anyone who drives her should get double pay." I should have asked her if she had ever done stand-up comedy, because she definitely could have.  I'd love to have one rider every day just like her.

PERSONALITY PLUS(MALE): The 63-year old man got in my car and had the energy and enthusiasm of a 23 year-old man.  He sold time share locations in Myrtle Beach and was number one in his office for ten of the last 17 years. He was very successful and had a lot of success in the past with his wife, who had passed away a few years ago.  This is what he said about his past: "My wife and I owned several photo shops and we made ugly women beautiful." "My wife found me the timeshare job.  She's a much better salesperson than I am, I was her flunky.  She would just get you laughing and you'd hand over your credit card." I can't imagine how funny his wife was, because he was hilarious. I asked him, "What's the secret of your sales success?"  He said, "Ask for the "friggin" money." "When someone says no, I take it as a challenge." He has a new wife and he told me, "When my wife doesn't like how something sounds that I say with my southern accent, I tell her I can say it any way I want because I make more money than she does." There's no way I could keep up with all his funny comments and he added one about his mom, " My mama told me that if you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth up." I was fortunate to have picked him up twice this month and it was exhausting trying to follow all his remarks, but it was well worth my effort. I hope I can pick him up again soon.

THE MISSIONAIRIES: My first passengers from North Dakota were also the first missionaries I've had in my car. The husband had been a pastor of a small church and he wanted to do more for farmers who are struggling in the country since he came from a farm background.  They work as a family for a company and help spread the gospel for farmers who need help.  They have three adorable kids, 2,4, and 6 who travel around the country with them in a camper.(they gave me their card with their family) We talked about how beautiful North Dakota is and they showed me some pictures of where they live.  They were a very nice couple and I'm sure the work they do is appreciated.

YOU NEVER KNOW: When my passenger got in the car he told me he was from Boston and that got me talking about sports.  I've had so many great sports conversations, especially with Red Sox and Patriot fans, this was easy.  Although he wasn't a huge sports fan anymore, he has a lot of friends who are and I gave him some memorable stories.  He told me that one of this friends was a physical therapist for the New England Patriots and one day Tom Brady needed someone to catch some balls.  Brady told his friend to put his hands out and don't move them and he would hit his hands.  He had gloves on, but the force of the ball was so much that it hit his chest after his hands and knocked the wind out of him.  And then, Brady said he was going to throw some hard ones! After talking sports for 15 minutes I was surprised how interesting his job was.  He runs the largest pageant website it the world.  He started it a number of years back when he owned an arena football team and he wanted a pretty girl to toss the coin at the beginning of the game.  Since the game was in Georgia he contacted Ms. Georgia and she agreed and also agreed to date him. She filled him in on the world of pageants and that's how he got the idea.  He said, "there are 1-2 million women involved in pageants." When he would visit other countries he would get tours from women who had won beauty contests.  I said, "that must be a difficult job." He admitted, "there are tougher jobs." He is married to Ms. Massachusetts now.  What an interesting guy to talk with, I wish I had talked less sports with him!

My Tissues Are Angry!

WHAT? You probably just said the same thing I did.  They do say you learn something new every day and today was one of those days.  I was lucky because I got to go to the dentist after my appointment  was canceled once, twice, three times, or I can't remember how many times.  When they scheduled today's appointment months ago I did ask, "we're talking about 2020 right?"

My dental hygienist I'll call TY.  It's not her real name, but those letters are in her name.  We had the kind of conversations that I have with riders in my car and we were laughing way too much to be in a dental office. I told her at the beginning that I don't remember exactly why I'm here, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with my teeth. It was a scheduled cleaning.

She was checking each of my teeth and calling out numbers to check on how they looked between 1 and 5, with 5 being possible problems.  I only got a couple 5's, but the constant calling out of numbers made me want to add them all up in my head.  She promised next time she would just do a cleaning and I said I wanted that in writing.  Fifteen minutes later she told me that she was going to check all the teeth again next time and I said, "just a short time ago someone promised they would only do a cleaning next time."  She also told me that in the nine years she's been in the south she's never said, y'all. I doubt it, but she said her fiancee would back her up on that.

She told me that my tissues in my mouth were angry, or had some inflaming? When I asked exactly where, she said, "in general, nowhere in particular." I was told that an electronic toothbrush was much better for my teeth and I should look into getting one, maybe someone would get one for me for Christmas. Why does it sound expensive?

She put on the below glasses and I said that, "green wasn't my color." She told me that it looked good and my wife would like it.  I told her, "my wife wouldn't go anywhere with me if I were them."  Then, she suggested I take a selfie for my blog.  I told her she gave me the perfect title for the blog.  Notice TY in the background, it's not the best picture of her.

TY gave me a choice of several flavors of toothpaste and said that "more of  my patients choose mint," so I went with that.  I told her it smelled like Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies and she replied, "that sounds good."  She's getting married in April and my next appointment is a few weeks before that.  I told her she was going to have to wait for this blog post until then and I'd give it to her for her first wedding gift.  I'm thinking one sleeve of thin mints would be perfect too!

Congratulations on your wedding TY!

What I Didn't Eat Eat For My 60th Birthday

This would be a very long blog, but obviously I didn't eat most foods. (although at times it seemed I was eating everything)  I know how fascinated you must be about the eight items I didn't eat, so here they are:

1. Chocolate Eclair (Ice Cream): Not to be confused with a pastry eclair and below is a picture so you know how good this is.  I finally found them today and I just ate one, okay I ate two.  I ate one for my 60th birthday and one for today. I rarely eat these and they are not very popular here in the South apparently.

2. Thin Mints(Girl Scout cookies) Unfortunately, I did not save some when we did have them in the fall or winter.  Put them in the freezer and pour the milk and they are as good as it gets. It's not that you can't eat one, it's tough not to eat five or six very quickly in between slurps of milk.

3. Carvel Flying Saucer: It's actually called a cookie, but they really don't have them at all around here.  When I get to New Jersey I'm getting one for sure.  No surprise, but it can come wiht chocolate ice cream in the middle, which is my favorite. They come from the freezer and they are bigger than an eclair but smaller that a pint of Haagen-Dazs coffee ice cream.

4. Triple Decker or Club Sandwich: They do have them here, but I just couldn't get one in time.  When I go to a diner I have to eat one, roast beef or turkey, both great.  They are big and fun to eat and surprisingly there is no chocolate in this food.

5. Block of Salami: In New Jersey you can pick up a salami in a supermarket and I love cutting pieces and eating them without bread, although some thick slices on rye with mustard is a great sandwich too.  I can see myself leaving New Jersey with one in a cooler, why not?

6. Turkey: I'm not talking about sliced turkey, I mean a real turkey that we eat for Thanksgiving.  I did eat Turkey legs which I could have counted as "Turkey", but I think turkey is the most underrated food.  You've got slices and bones and if it's so good for Thanksgiving, how can we not eat more of it during the year?  I think once a month would be perfect!

7.Cranberry Bread: I've raved about this before. My mom's cranberry bread was unbelievable and my wife's is just as good. I can eat this anytime of the day or night and never get tired of it.  Can't wait to have it again.

8. Gefilte Fish: It smells, but I really like eating this. You usually only see it around Passover and who knows if I'll see it down here.

I can't promise I won't blog about food again, but if you read all these food blogs you probably gained a pound or two!

Loki The Dog, Visits Myrtle Beach

 Not being an animal lover I have said this many times, "I have nothing against animals as long they are someone else's or they are not real." (I'm fine with fish though) For the most part I have not lived with a pet, although I did have a roommate in college that had a cat in the room for a short time and it was an awful experience.  My wife and I had a cat in our first house for a really, really short time. The cat was kept inside a closed hallway near the front door and I didn't come in contact with it much at all.  Legend has it that I left the door open and the cat ran for it's life and never came back-it was very sad.

My son visited for a week with his four month old puppy and stayed at our house this past week. The puppy was a good dog.  Matter of fact, I kept hearing the words, "good dog" over and over among other words. I was going to title this post, "It's all about the poop," which it really was.  I think I woke up in the middle of the night and heard voices saying, "do you have to go, do you have to go?" And yes, I did have to go. Sometimes during the day I would hear the same question and I would think to myself, "well I could go, do I have to?"

My favorite phrase I heard was when my son was trying to teach the dog not to bite. "No biting, no biting" he would say, but to me I kept hearing, "NO BIDEN, NO BIDEN." Those words always brought a smile to my face.   I almost stepped on Loki once, which I thought was a pretty good accomplishment. (coming close only once)  Towards the end of the week my son asked me, "are you ready to hold him?" I needed another day to prepare, but there is a picture of me holding Loki.  We did wait until he was almost asleep which was perfect.

He didn't bark much and he was pretty calm I thought.  My son kept telling him to relax when it was nap time and I could almost feel my eyes closing when he said, "relax."  The best news is that Loki is coming back around Christmas, so you can look for the sequel blog at the end of the year- "The Return of Loki."

Finishing Up Eating at 60

 How many of my favorite foods could I eat over five weeks? It has been a lot of fun and due to the warm weather I have not gained any weight which is hard to believe.  I finished up with these items off my list and ate 52 of my favorite 60 items.  I will post about the eight items that I did not get to eat. I'm sure you can't wait for that!

1. Chocolate cake: My youngest daughter made me this cake from scratch and it was incredible.  We finished it in two sittings, but she also made two small little pieces I could take to work which I've also eaten and loved.  Below is the picture of the cake.

2. Matzah: We finally did find a box that I could eat in a supermarket since it's really not that time of year.  Sometimes I like to have a little extra after dinner and Matzah with cream cheese on it is a perfect way to end the meal.

3. Chips and onion dip: A great appetizer before a meal or during a game.  You can't really eat one and I didn't.  I also lost a few in the dish, but who hasn't?

4. Swedish Meatballs: Hot meatballs in sauce are a perfect appetizer unless you have Uncle Larry's Schlumpia, which are just as amazing.  We had the meatballs combined with the next two items for a meal and it was fun eating them.

5. Little Hot Dogs: A classic appetizer you dip into some mustard and they hit the spot.  They should sell these at baseball games, but they'd probably be $2 for each little dog.

6. Macaroni & Cheese: I cheated a little bit here since I put on my list Jim & Nick's mac & cheese.  This barbecue place  is in Charleston and they have the best mac & cheese, but we decided not to drive the 80 miles for them.  I settled for regular mac & cheese and I used the sauce from the meatball for even more flavor.  This was some meal!

August Rider Quotes

"When I get my license back and get a car, I want to be an Uber driver."

"I'm an Uber driver to my grandchildren.  I take them wherever they want to go."

"I'm a nocturnal creature.  I like things gloomy and dark."

Rider: "I have to get gifts for my five kids." Friend of rider: "He never learned when to pull out."  Me: "I'm not touching that line." Rider: I was really stupid, I have five kids with four women."  Me: "I'm not touching that line either."

"We met on a dating site and our first date was going to be in Disneyland. The day before we went we talked on the phone for 12 hours."

"My 99 year-old grandmother is so stubborn. I said to her, "you must have been an awful teenager."

(6 am Sunday morning) "I can't sleep, I have to get something to eat. I got married last night."  Me: "Did you get any sleep last night? Oops, I shouldn't have asked you that."

"Uber saved the day. Our taxi driver from the airport spoke no English and could not use his phone or GPS.  His boss put the destination into his phone and we had to direct him to drop us off 3/4th of the way there before calling Uber." (I picked them up walking through the trees between the Marriott and Grand Dunes.)

"I was ripped like Jesus. Did you ever notice he always had a six pack-he even looked good on the cross."(not a religious comment)

"My grandmother is a "gamer." She used to buy and play all these games years ago and still in her 80's she burns out a tablet every year."

"I tell new workers that after six months of doing this heavy lifting, if you squeeze yourself hard, you'll turn purple."

"I didn't know there were Uber drivers sitting at the airport, there was no sign so I got a taxi."

"Me: "How long have you been dating?"  Female: "Three years."  Male: "Three going on 30." Me: "You better be nice to her or she'll start hitting you."

(Uber driver from Arizona) "We get riders good and drunk and then we take all their money.  No, we don't do that."(??)

"How am I supposed to film a commercial for suicide prevention for veterans when the two people in the commercial have to be six feet apart and I have two pandemic inspectors watching?"

As a bartender along the beach here I saved all my quarters a couple years ago and rolled them each night.  When the summer ended and three days before I went to Disney World, I brought all the rolls of quarters into the bank.  The $1,000 paid for my trip."

"I was with a girlfriend in Conway and we were drunk.  She said, "Do you want to go to the graveyard?" I said, "sure." We walked for about an hour and 45 minutes and I said to her, "do you know where the graveyard is?" She said, "what graveyard?"

"After my car accident the EMT told me to squeeze his hand while they gave me pain killers for my other broken hand.  Later at the hospital he told me that I squeezed his hand so hard he was getting X-rays, because he thinks I broke his hand."

"When you get tested for the virus they stick  a swab all the way up your nostril. I have a high tolerance for pain, but when they did the other nostril I had tears in my eyes."

(Pulling up to my rider at the Hilton) "I'm not going to be riding with you.  I need to get my Dad's phone back to him, give him this bag."(32 minutes later I said to the Dad, "what's your daughter's name-you better get this right.)

Him: "I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan and if you're a New York Giant fan, we're not going to be friends."  Me: "Oh no! We're not going to be friends?"

Female rider: "I'm studying marketing, but I hate it.  I don't want to work." Boyfriend: "She wants me to pay for everything." Female rider: "What's wrong with that?" (dating only 8 months)

"I think next time we go on vacation we'll go to an Adults Only Resort."

"They say if you can make a woman laugh you can make her do anything." 

"The day before Disneyland opened up, Governor Ronald Reagan visited with his kids and they wanted to go on the monorail. It hadn't been working and the driver did not know how to stop it.  Walt Disney allowed them on with the Secret Service. Somehow it finally worked and the driver was able to stop it. When the Secret Service heard about the previous problems, they wanted to charge Walt Disney with kidnapping."

"When I ate Cracker Barrel's chicken I thought I was going insane.(loved it) I live cheap and eat cheap."

Me: "Has the virus affected your business?" Waste Management Recruiter: "No, trash don't stop."

Me. "What's the best thing about Myrtle Beach?" Him: "The education, I have eight kids."

"I just showed up everyday and did more and more work.  Before long I was doing more than my boss so they fired him and gave me the job"

"My wedding was postponed in July and now is scheduled for January 1. However, it is not looking promising to have over 200 people there.  We will get married that day, but if we have to we will reschedule the reception for July."

"I have two old Atari games that are worth $2,500 each."

"It's a sad day today, we have to go home."

"Myrtle Beach was our fiftieth vacation destination this time."

"Lot's of people don't know the difference between age 50 and 59." Me: "9 years?"

"Myrtle Beach is cleaner than Miami."

"Myrtle Beach is cleaner than Atlanta."

"I met him on a business trip and he decided to stick around."

"We've stayed at a lot of different places and we really enjoyed the Plantation in North Myrtle Beach."

"We both didn't like Captain Georges Buffet, but it's probably the best buffet I've ever been to."

"I can lift 400 pounds after many years of lifting granite and heavy things. I have co-workers who can't believe how strong I am." (35 years old)

"Bowlers hate each other, especially the good, young guys."

Mom: "I have an eleven and nine year old. It feels like I gave birth yesterday." Me: "If it was, you had a really long day."

"They make the virus sound like your skin is going to bubble up."

"I was married 7 1/2 years-I'm not going to do that again."

Printer: "They've been saying that the internet was going to kill our business for a decade now and it hasn't.  I stopped reading what we print a long time ago, as long as the money is green, I'm good."

"My Grandfather always told us that he brought my Mom and Aunt to Disney World and Disneyland several times, but when he got to Disney World he said he had never been there."

"I was coming down here to golf with 12 other guys, but 11 did not come.  The one guy who I came with got bit by a copperhead and he's on crutches, so I'm playing myself."

"In my city Minneapols, the damage to the city is going to cost taxpayers 250 million dollars.  Half of the restaurants will not open again. I'm thinking of moving."(30 year old male)

Technical Analyst for an Intelligence Agency: "There won't be antidote for this virus this winter. If we don't change what we're doing we may wind up with 300,000 deaths."

ICU Nurse: "The virus is not dominating my life."

"If we're careful the virus allows us to do new things."

"A lot of workers here just want to hang out and go to the beach-I wind up doing their work."

Female rider from Chicago: "I just graduated with a degree in law enforcement and I want to go into gang investigations-think it's thrilling."

Bartender: "I've been a bartender my whole life."(6 years and she's still in her twenties)

"His Mom(referring to the baby's Mom and his wife) didn't think she could get pregnant, it was like a miracle birth."

Bus driver in New York City: "There's no charge so riders don't come near the drivers."

"Getting married in Disney World really was magical. The best part was having about 70 family and friends with us."

(7am in Surfside my rider watched me approach Ocean Boulevard. Suddenly two cyclists stopped riding and literally stopped in front of my rider and waved me ahead) The rider said, "he's picking me up." (If the cyclists were secret service they could not have protected him from me any better)

"Our hospital in Boston had 450 virus patients a few months ago and we're now down to 20."

"I'm just going to lay on the beach with some fruity drinks that have an umbrella in them."

"Captain Georges Buffet is more elegant than the Calabash Buffets."

"One small children's hospital in Cleveland announced that due to the virus they lost $40 million in two months earlier this year."

Bartender: "I once had some young kids throw up in the bathroom.  I told them they were kicked out of the bar, but first they had to clean up the bathroom and they did it."

As I opened my trunk with dozens of small Wal-Mart bags full of food after the mom went shopping for the family of six from Minnesota, the husband said, "that had to cost at least $50." (It cost $300)

"We really roughed it here playing 100 holes in three days. My back hurts."

Him: "If they say that the decision to have an abortion is about your body, why wouldn't the decision to wear a mask be about your body?" Me: "Don't even think about putting that on social media."

Talking to a big New England Patriot fan from Boston about the Giants beating the Patriots in The Super Bowl to destroy their undefeated season, she said, "do we have to talk about that game?"  "Yes," I said.

"Goodbye Mr. No-Fro." Rider's comment after I told him I was given the nickname Jeff-fro-no-fro last year by a rider.

"As a server sometimes people give you crap."

"I chose to go to the University of Hawaii because they have one of the top cheer leading  programs in the country."

"I hated being an accountant. I bought a dialysis center with a client and now I own 36 Autism centers in seven states."

"My wife and two small children were in a golf cart and were hit by a woman in a car who missed the stop sign. My kids will be okay, but my wife shattered her ankle."