The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Thanks for all the comments on this article? I hope you enjoy this one! If you have children you will be able to relate to this: As ham sandwiches go, it was perfection. A thick slab of ham on a fresh bun with crisp lettuce and plenty of expensive light yellowish-brown gourmet mustard. His mouth was salivating at the thought of taking a huge bite, when his wife came up from behind him and said, "Hold Johnny for a minute." (Johnny is our six week-old son). So balancing his son between his elbow and shoulder, he reached for his ham sandwich, when he noticed a streak of mustard on his fingers. He loves mustard and had no napkin. He licked it off. It was NOT mustard. No man ever put a baby down faster! It was the first and only time he sprinted to the bathroom with his tongue hanging out. With the washcloth in each hand he did the kind of shoeshine movement across his tongue. Later after his wife composed herself from laughing so hard she said, "Now you know why they call that mustard? Poupon!" You know you are living in 2004 when: - you accidentally enter your password on the microwave, - you haven't played solitaire with real cards for awhile, - you have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three, - you e-mail the person at the desk next to you, - you've sat at the same desk for years and have worked for three different companies, - you learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news, - your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job, - every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen, - leaving your house without your cell phone is now a cause for panic, Quote of the week: "Finish each day and be DONE with it. You have done what you could: some blunders and absurdities have crept in: forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day: you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." ? Ralph Waldo Emerson.
