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Axel Slingerland said:
Only if it was amusing. For example, we were playing at a country fair somewhere out there, this guy comes staggering up to me while I was talking to a bunch of people from the audience after a show. He says something like "This is such an honor, Mr Gibbons! Can I have your autograph?" So I asked him something like "So you think because I play guitar and have a long beard that I'm Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top?" He says "Well, ain'tcha?" I took his county fair ticket and wrote on it, "Sorry, but I'm not Billy Gibbons. Axel Slingerland, Guitarist, The Generic Band", and I asked if he had access to a computer and said he did. So on the back of his ticket I wrote "Alcoholics Anonymous: www.aa.org."

By the way, as of 1:00a on New Years Day, I've been sober for 47 years, 7 months and 12 days.
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Axel you should have been nicer to the guy, Although I'm sure you were before the conversation ended.;)
 
It's annoying to get old.

Run out to get the mail and it's yet another invitation to a nice dinner while listening to a pitch from a cremation company.

Who could eat? Well maybe they don't show dead people being burned up.
 
I got (yet another) mailing from an outfit selling hearing aids. Sucks to get old!

But it reminded me that as a kid I used to send away for free and cheap stuff from time to time. One of those was for a "dummy" in-ear hearing aid device. It just seemed like spy-tech to me (maybe 8 years old?).

My mother had fits trying to convince their salesmen that no, I wasn't deaf, and yes, she knew that for certain.

That whole episode... didn't go well for me at home. Weird too, it is the very same outfit trying to sell me on hearing aids now - or at least some company with the very same name. These ads now arrive looking like some sort of Very Official government mailing on the outside. Grr. Just once please, let one be a fat check made out to me.
 
It seems like the only mail I get nowadays IS the junk mail; so I can relate to what you are saying about that, @Jacob Petersheim . It even comes with my former married name, which I have not used for around 30 years, but to my address here, and I do not know how they get that confused.
Junk email and messages is no better, and get deleted without even checking those out.

I remember the ads that were on comic books from when I was a kid. What I wanted the most was the “live baby monkey for $19.95”, but my mom said no way to that one.
She did get me the “live seahorses”, which turned out to be some kind of shrimp (I think) and were not what the picture looked like at all. Even so, I did enjoy watching them.

And I must have filled out the application to be a Rosecrucian, because they sent me mail for years after that, and I had no idea what they even were, but they sounded interesting and mysterious to my young self.

The cereal boxes had ads for free kid toys also, and you just had to eat a few boxes of cereal and save the cardboard label from the box to order it. I loved the deep sea divers that worked with baking soda, and went up and down in the special gold fish bowl that my mom bought for them.
 
When I lived in bush Alaska, we received many catalogs. People (mostly women) would conduct social activities with coffee and sweet stuff while they shopped in what was referred to as "the mall", i.e., the collection of catalogs in the days before the World Wide Web.
 
I ran out of Mounjaro 3 weeks ago, and the pharmacy had no refill orders. It doesn't appear on my online "chart" with the Doc's office for reorder so I figured maybe I was done with it.

I had another prescription run out, so I put in a re-order request. Added a comment to it about the Mounjaro. Went to pick it up, and sure enough the Doc had prescribed more Mounjaro.

It has been a 3 week gap, but he has me on the same dosage now. It's a full moon, so if nobody hears from me I suppose the Burgermeister's Sheriff got me with a silver bullet. Just so you know.
 
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