Notes in the margin

 

There is short-term parking at the airport.  What is considered short term?

 

An insurance agent tried to sell me a Term Life policy.
I asked him how he knew the term of my life.

 

He asked if I was presently parked at the airport.

 

I said, “Not at the moment.”

 

He said he has spent his life paying attention to the details.  For example, the company selling mushrooms in a can put it right on the label, Mushrooms, Stems and Pieces.  They don’t come right out and say, “Sweepings.”   What they are saying is, nothing goes to waste.

 

What does any of that have to do with parking at the airport?

 

Had you been presently parked at the airport, you’d most likely be someplace else, which means we’d not be sitting here talking about stems and pieces.  So like you, this conversation isn’t going anywhere.

 

“I’m getting a headache.”

 

OH, sounds like a pre-existing condition.  We may have a problem insuring you.