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lil  ·  3856 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 17, 2014

Yay!! it's 3:13 p.m. Eastern Daylight and the pub's still open!!

This morning, I cycled to the downtown university where I teach and was locking up my bike with the usual two locks and cable. It's around 8:00 a.m. A man walked by and said, "Hi cutie!" I looked up and saw that the man was very old and wearing dark glasses and was being guided by a younger man holding his sleeve.

I thought, "Wow, he's blind." Then I thought -- "I am so cute today that even a blind man can see how cute I am. How cool is that?" So I finished locking my bike and caught up to the two men,

I said, "Did you just say 'Hi Cutie'?

Old man, "Yes, you are cute today."

Me: Are you blind?

Old man, "No, I can see you perfectly."

"Oh," I said, a little disappointed.

The moral of the story: Ecclesiastes 1:12:14: Vanity vanity all is vanity.