Orchids to …
• Tracy and Dean at WW Auto Parts and Salvage for helping me solve my car issue.
• Peg for being a great neighbor.
• Gov. Eric Holcomb for closing all bars and restaurants in the state to help save lives.
• whoever turned in my cell phone at the west side Walmart last Thursday.
• the federal elected official who finally admitted that the coronavirus is not a hoax.
• St. Peter’s Lutheran Church for the volunteer shoppers.
• President Trump for his excellent handling of the coronavirus.
Onions to …
• those who want to pass the referendum when the support staff doesn’t get paid during the COVID-19 closure, there is extra money for your teachers who still get a paycheck.
• the man who doesn’t understand social distancing doesn’t mean you have to be rude and hateful.
• people who can’t understand that if you increase someone’s wage just to keep them employed there, within six months their lifestyle will change and they will just need more money or they will go somewhere else.
• the people who forget the federal elected official who let 1,000 Americans die and six months go by before ever declaring a national emergency for the H1N1 virus.
• a school corporation that says about half the kids qualify for free lunches and yet demands more tax dollars when they need to find more creative ways to keep their “young teachers.”
• the school system for suddenly becoming a food delivery service and not realizing that feeding kids at home is not the school’s problem.
• the incredibly selfish residents of this city for completely clearing out the local stores of basics such as toilet paper, paper towels and sanitizers and staples such as canned vegetables and beans.
• the media for creating a panic with a virus that has a lower death rate than the common flu.
• the school system that thinks it has to be a food delivery service.
• people who constantly criticize the federal elected official as you aren’t helping our country, and it’s getting very old — you aren’t changing anyone’s mind.
• those who have forgotten that they did regrettable things as teenagers, and lack the grace to extend to a teenager today the forbearance they themselves were once granted.
• the corporation that brought people here to Columbus from the epicenter of the virus outbreak in China.
• the political party who wanted all people allowed in the United States.
• the useless state leader.
• the bigger employers in the county who treat their office workers and hourly workers totally different.
• the people in line at the post office not observing the 6-foot rule.
Happy Birthday to …
• Libby Hawkins on No. 90, from your family.
• Kaitlynn Brooks, from Aunt Marian, the Millers, the Kirbys, and Aunt Imogene.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
