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86-year Old Lady's Letter to Bank Shown below, is an actual letter that was sent to a...

On Friday, I received a call from a young man indicating he was conducting some research on behalf of Bank of America. It was a customer satisfaction survey. After he told me the conversation was being recorded, I took the liberty of giving him a piece of my mind. I told him it disturbed me that Bank of America was spending, perhaps millions, to get opinions on their customer service---and the...

As winter sinks its fangs in deep, and snow and slush bank the roads up here in the northern U.S., it's nice to think back to the Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee and the wind in our faces! www.runningwithstilettos.com

“LIFE AFTER 50” COL 5/2/11 WMKV 89.3 FM ON AIR WMKVFM.ORG WOLD-WIDE ON THE INTERNET AND A BLOG ON GROWINGBOLDER.COM/AJHORNBAKER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELLO AGAIN. THIS IS ALICE HORNBAKER FOR WMKV 89.3 FM BRINGING YOU ANOTHER “LIFE AFTER 50” COLUMN THAT IS HEARD, EXCLUSIVELY, ON WMKV 89.3 FM AND...

Did you ever have one of those days where it couldn't get any worse? Here is my sister's email today. I had to laugh. Reminded me of the day I ate lasagna for lunch and dropped a noodle on my radio. I talked to people, held a meeting but no one said anything until I saw my friend and she said "what's that on your radio?". We laughed. Hey Sis…………… So, did you ever have one of those...

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can’t get past the cover. There they were. Two plump canteloupes staring at me. And I was at the bank! When the teller moved her position, gravity was clearly conflicted. Swaaaaaaaay to the right. Swaaaaaaaay to the left. Swaaaaaay……wait, wait, we gotta do this together. I heard a voice from above them ask me a few...

The last two Monday's have been very strange to say the least.Last Monday I was doing my normal Monday stuff...grocery shopping,produce store,post office & banking. I was leaving the bank and on my way out I saw an elderly man sitting on the curb kind of swaying back and forth. I walked down the curb to ask him if he was ok an his forehead was bleeding profusely.I asked what happened and he said...