Today I walked into a jewelry shop. The shop owner was very friendly.<\/p>\n
I suspect he was happy for the business. These days I am guess anybody in retail is glad for the business.<\/p>\n
We said our hellos, and then he told me they were running a special today. “Oh, really?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“Yes,” he said pleasantly. “Half off all earrings. If you buy one earring, you get the other one for free.”<\/p>\n
It took me a moment to realize it was a joke. But then I laughed, because somehow it struck me as very funny.<\/p>\n
I thought about that poor man, all day in his shop day after day, in the midst of a pandemic, just waiting for a customer to come in. And I wondered how many times today he had occasion to try that joke out on somebody.<\/p>\n
I hope he had the opportunity to tell it many times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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