The woman had slept in. Now, sitting up and stretching, she yawns, looks around the room, and thinks, Home invasion! She won’t be calling the police, but this looks bad. Only after her ritual read in bed does she look up again to survey the scene. The necklace she’d worn to church peeks out from the pile of laundry on the bureau. Her sunglasses loll on the floor asking to be stepped on. Last week’s unpacked suitcase doubles now as a doorstop. Before she’d gone out of town, she’d set aside a pile of random socks for matching. She sees them now, crowding together on top of the bookcase. On her way downstairs to make some breakfast she thinks she hears them griping because the others are still gone missing Mayhem reigned on the first floor too, and as our woman walks into the kitchen, she chuckles as she continues the inventory she’d begun in her messy room. After staying up too late watching some series, rimmed cups and rinsed dishes sit in the sink unwashed. Dried teabags, a...
The Palmville Globe Volume 2 Number 22 Man Makes Things Go Joe McDonnell, 79 and a resident of Palmville Twp, Minnesota, and his wife Teresa, also residing in Palmville, recently purchased their first hybrid vehicle. "The vehicle requires some getting used to," McDonnell tells reporters. "We decided to take a cross country trip to familiarize ourselves with the controls and work out any bugs. One day after I was just getting used to having to wait for the green"Ready" light on the dash to come on before putting the vehicle in drive, we pulled into a scenic overlook in a remote area. After enjoying the view, I tried backing up and the vehicle would not move. In fact the "check engine" light was on. I was about to call our after-care specialist at the dealership. My wife said there was no cell service and suggested I turn everything off, wait 30 seconds, and start over. I'm not sure what I had done wrong, but starting over solved the problem....