Trump This!

It's not too early to start thinking of the 2020 election.

As President Trump looks over the west portico of Trump House, as he has renamed the White House, he ponders a run for a second term.

The thing is, he spent one fortune winning in 2016; can he afford another fortune to finance a campaign to remain in office? Did he convince the Republicans they should finally back him, or do they still think Jeb Bush is electable?

It's a sure bet the Democrats have given up on Hillary so there's no strong contender against him.

On the other hand, Vice President Carson has done an excellent job keeping out of the spotlight the last four years. But he still thinks he deserves a shot at the top job. He's already sent out feelers to his supporters pledging to replace the gold “Trump House” billboard with a silver caduceus, symbolic of his healing powers.

Will the brain surgeon supplant the brainless? America awaits.

Where the hell is it?

I spent about 30 minutes this afternoon looking for a receipt I had in  my hand when I walked into the kitchen. But suddenly it wasn't there.

That's ridiculous, I thought, It has to be here. Where did it go? What's the big deal, you ask.

Here's the back story: the receipt was from our supermarket and it should have shown we had reached the purchase threshold that entitled us to a free turkey for Thanksgiving. But when we checked out the total was further from the threshold than when we started.

Not possible. So we went to customer service and the attendant looked up our account. She said we had been credited with a return of $160 TODAY in a branch store more than 90 miles south.

This called for a chat with the manager. He was very nice and explained that all to often people who don't have a store card use a phone number to verify their account. Unfortunately, today someone chose to use ours. The manager also said this was not uncommon. He gave us credit for the turkey and, at his suggestion, we changed the phone number associated with our account.

As a courtesy, I called the store that refunded someone $160 and told him they used a false phone number. The manager gave me what I interpreted as a verbal shrug, saying, "it happens."

So that explains my anxiety about the receipt, which we finally found. And the free turkey is heading for a food bank.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, except the phone number thief.