So, I'm at BJ's today. It's a warehouse club, if you don't know. And I go there to buy boost, the little drinks, you know, the little protein drinks I buy there. High protein, 20 grams of protein.
And I got my son 35 cans of Coke Zero. Spent 58 bucks. Yeah, expensive. Anyway, when you go and you check yourself out there, then you head out to the door.
There's always a guy and the guy is standing there with this little marker and he takes your receipt and he kind of glances at your, you know, your cart. And then he smiles and then he puts a little line through your thingy. And he comes up and he goes, how are you doing today? And I said, just immediately, right off the top of my head.
I said, Anyone I can, the easy ones twice. He looked at me. And I said, Oh my God, my mother used to say that. My late mother, my sweet, precious, wonderful mother used to say that.
And here I just picked it up and it's a little tidbit present that I got from her. I don't mean it, but, you know, it was cute and my mom used to say it. And we're gonna talk about a book when we come right back. Mom had some other gems, too.
Many I say all the darn time, but I'm not going to say here on the podcast because some of them might be offensive to some people and I shouldn't even care about that. But anyway, now the other thing, before I went to BJ's this morning, I'm on the phone with Jennifer. Jennifer is one of my oldest friends. We met in 1965.
And we agree on virtually nothing in the entire world, but I love her dearly and we get along wonderfully, even though we agree on nothing politically. But we, you know, we talk all the time. Love her dearly. And she's telling me that, you know, we were talking about, I said, getting old really sucks or something like that, you know, we're just having conversations.
She goes, I have a friend. She wrote a book called Living Beyond Our Sell Date. I said, what? I said, I want that book.
And she goes, well, I have a copy of the book. I said, have you ever read the book? She goes, no. She goes, I know the woman.
Jennifer used to be a librarian. And this woman was one of her clients. She used to come in and Jennifer's actually been to her house, which is right around the corner from where Jennifer lives. And I said, she gives you this book.
You've been to her house and you've never read the book. And she said, no. I said, you're my age. And she goes, yes.
I said, how can you not read a book called Living Beyond Our Sell Date? And by the way, the author is Dr. Evelyn Martyr Levin. And I and she goes, I she's a delightful lady.
I just never read the book. I'm going to read the book. I said, I'm going to read the book. I went right on the Amazon, Amazon.com and $14.99.
I bought the damn book. It's going to be here on Saturday. And I just, how can you be our age and not want to read a book by, by the way, this lady is now 94 years old. She's 94 years old.
How can you not want to read a book if you're our age called Living Beyond Our Sell Date? What the hell? All right. Let me read to you what I haven't read this yet.
I have, see, I was so damn excited about this. I just bought the book and when you buy the book, Amazon takes you someplace else and I knew I was gonna talk about it here. So I went back on and I didn't read any of this stuff. By the way, it is a four or a 3.9 out of five star rating.
Okay. We're living longer and retiring younger initially and excess of time seems a blessing to people who have spent most of their lives never having enough time, but whose belief has been someday when I have time, uh, I'm not gonna read the rest. I'm going to wait and read the damn book, but it just sounds so good. I'm recommending the book to you.
As a matter of fact, I want you to go this nice, this nice, delightful 94 year old woman. I want you to go to Amazon and buy the, the paperback or if you can get the Kindle, but buy the paperback for $14.99. It just buy it and then we're going to get together here sometime next week because I'm it's gonna come Saturday. You know what my hassle doing on Saturday.
It's sitting in my easy chair with a good light on and I'm going to read this book. It's just under 200 pages. I'm going to read this book because yeah, sometimes I feel as though we are all living beyond our sell date. Uh, you know, it happens all the time, but then again, some of us are dropping like flies.
I had a good friend named Jeff. Jeff died the other day. Just up and died. I was talking to him on Facebook the day before he died and he was, you know, we're having a discussion.
The next day he's dead. Just like that. He was 65. That's young.
But the other people are living longer lives. And what do you do when you're old? I, I can't wait to read this book. I want some ideas.
And here's the best part. This is so, so good. Jennifer tells me she's going to get this woman to agree for me to come over with Jennifer to her house and meet her. And I'm going to take my trusty iPhone and I'm going to ask her one or two pertinent questions about the book.
And I'm going to record her answer and I'm going to make that part of a upcoming podcast. Isn't that cool? I'm going to do this. So wow.
It is just amazing. All the little things that we come across in life that turn out to be blessings that turn out to be little nuggets that we take with us like my mom. Anyone I can the easy ones twice. I don't know where she got that.
I think I, well, wait a minute. I think I do know that there was a guy named Aldo Farani. I remember him in my youth and Aldo Farani would come and visit us every so once in a while. And he said that all the time.
And my mother just thought that was adorable. So she would say it even though she's not that kind of person. Aldo Farani, on the other hand, well, I don't know. I was a kid.
Last time I saw Aldo Farani, he came to visit us in Florida. I knew him in Michigan. So it had to be sometime in the sixties when he showed up to Florida and came over to the house. My dad wasn't happy to see him.
I remember that my mom was, but anyway, he used to say that so that now I, my memory banks have taken me back and I remember that. So just, you know, we pick up these little gems along our life and we go with them. I have several of them that have come out of my past that I just go with. And it is always a blessing.
Well, I hope you're having a terrific day. This is Thursday and I was going to talk about podcasting, but I decided to plug the hell out of this book because I am directing you to go on Amazon. Help this 94 year old lady out. So she has a little money to maybe go to the bingo hall or better yet, the casino.
I don't know her. Jennifer says she's an absolute delight. She's got a PhD, so she's smarter than me. Did I just make a poem?
Wow. And we will see you tomorrow for a fabulous Friday. Let the rough edges drag. They will soon wear smooth.