I was put on hold when I phoned the pharmacy to schedule a flu shot.
“I’m sorry but I have to put you on hold,” the pharmacy employee I’d reached told me. “There are several people ahead of you. I’m really sorry.”
Folks rarely apologize when they put me on…
Medium, in its ceaseless quest to make this platform turn a profit, recently instigated a little plug-in that a writer could drop into their posts to tempt non-Medium members to join the party.
If a Muggle joins Medium via your plug-in, you get a percentage of the take!
Last month…
I was in the terminal, waiting to board my night flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia and everyone around me was wearing their masks properly. Except for one guy. A blond dude in his late 30s, he wore a mask that covered his chin but not his mouth or nose.
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A while back, Medium, in its ceaseless quest to make this platform turn some kind of a profit, instigated a little plug-in that a writer could drop into their posts to tempt non-Medium members to join the party.
If a Muggle joins Medium via your plug-in, you get a percentage…
Even though I made the phone call, it was really Steven who put me on that plane. I wanted to fly out at dawn. “Let’s wait till after breakfast,” he said. “Change to a later flight.”
By that time everything was sold out except a few seats on Doomed Flight…
Bagging your own groceries didn’t even used to be an option. The cashier did it. Or a bagger, whose entire job consisted of filling up hundreds of grocery bags a day without breaking a single egg.
That was fine with me. I was no more eager to do their work…
I propose a new medical condition, which I’m calling Cell Phone Echolalia. Cell phone echolalia causes the sufferer to repeat everything a person who is talking on a cell phone in public says, at first in a whisper, but escalating in volume until it becomes a shout.
This is how…
I’m a writing coach who works with writers to help them improve and publish their work. I often tell the Medium writers I work with to publish — and get paid for — their work outside of Medium before they post it on the platform.
If a writer isn’t familiar…
It started with this post on my online neighborhood bulletin board:
ATTENTION CYCLISTS! The speed limit on the trail is 7 MPH. I have ridden the path on my bike with a speedometer app and know what 7MPH is like. Y’all ain’t doing it.
Other trail users quickly agreed:
It’s…
I’ve been on Medium since February 2019, and while my daily reads sometimes fluctuate, they tend to hold steady at around 200 a day.
So imagine my surprise when I checked my stats this morning and saw that I received 3,503 reads yesterday!
This experience is known on the platform…
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