Down Hummingbird Lane

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Ancient Bavarian proverb: A contented man cannot be poor, and the discontented man can never be rich.

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I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts.

I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Those are my only prejudices.

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Fog forced our Puerto Rico-to-New York plane to be diverted to Washington, D.C.

As I left the cockpit, a passenger complained,

"A little bit of fog never stopped a train from getting to its destination."
I was about to respond, but his wife did the honors.

"That's right, Charlie," she said.

"Next time you want to go from San Juan to New York, you take the train."