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How do you say “thank you” to someone? Mail a note, deliver a gift, send an email or text with emojis and digital confetti, offer a word of gratitude on the phone or across the fence? There’s no right or wrong way. Every situation that merits a “thank you” prompts a different response. Sometimes that prompt and response is unexpected for both the giver and the recipient.
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An interesting thing happened while driving to a labyrinth recently: I was streaming my random playlist on the car radio and all the songs I heard were from before 1978. That means they all harkened to a time when the future was out in front of me and anything was possible.
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“Are you a retired doctor?”
“No.”
“Well, you look like a retired doctor.”
“Sorry, but I’m not.”
The question came from a man remodeling the vacant house next door. Work has been sporadic over the past two years, so I sometimes walk over when someone is working to get the latest forecast on completion. We’re eager to have good neighbors in that house.
The conversation this day was through an open window when I took a break from mowing. I can’t imagine what there was about me that made him think I was a doctor, and a retired one at that. I mean, seriously, I was mowing my own lawn. The closest I’ve come to being a doctor is when I worked in communications at DART and donned a doctor’s white coat for a photo shoot in the atrium at Medical City Hospital.
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