To fix your mouth for a favorite dish and after waiting ten minutes more to be told, “ It’s all out, sir.”

To be told of the presence of wrinkles ’ on your face when you know they’re only dim ples.
To have the septuagenarian, who all your life has been an old man to you, squeak out to you, “Well, you’re getting old like the rest of us.”

To talk with the man who at every remark you make or question you ask says, “Hah l” after the exploding of which expletive you must say it all over again. To hear people you have tried to help com plain of the unfriendliness, coldness, and indifference of the world in general.
To bs always putting your knife or pencil in the wrong pocket and going through a x \l the rest before you find them. ” To stow your railway ticket carefully away in some secret recess of your clothes, and then forget it, and at regular intervals be seized with a spasm of fear that you have lost it, consequent on which comes a spell of frantic rummaging until you find it. To attempt in one day more business of various sorts than your mind can grasp or your hands can handle. To lie to your friend or enemy and be found out.
To order groceries for dinner and have them sent two hours after.
