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Remembering. . .What?

Some days are better than others when it comes to my memory.

Who am I kidding? It's really down to moments.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, when I was 17, I memorized all of Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss for a public-speaking competition. I recall stumbling once or twice. Maybe trice. Ah, I had a strong memory back then.

My long-term memory is still rather good. I just related a tale from over 40 years ago, didn't I?

It's the short-term memory. Sigh. The other day, I was telling the Husband how many states allow employers to pay their workers who receive tips far less than minimum wage, as long as the combination of their tips and hourly rate (let's say $2.13/hour) totals up to either the federal or state minimum wage, whichever is the higher amount in the state. Yes, I know. The Husband could not believe it either. I'm glad to say that California does not have that law. I told the Husband that I learned all this from research I had done the day before for the occupational profile I had written. But, I couldn't for the life of me remember what the occupation was. That was quite troublesome, you betcha.

That incident happened at around 2 p.m. in a supermarket parking lot. About five hours later, while I was pulling ingredients out of the refrigerator to make dinner, it suddenly came to me. Skycaps! That was the occupation.

And, since we're on the subject of skycaps, did you know that some airlines are now charging passengers $2 a bag for using skycap service? The bummer part about that is the money does not go to the skycaps. Passengers think it does, so they don't tip the skycaps for their help. Thank goodness for federal minimum wage. Currently that is $7.25 per hour. California's minimum wage is $8.00 per hour, which is one of the highest hourly rates for a state. Can you believe that some people believe that the federal minimum wage is just too high? Seriously. Some politicians want to abolish minimum wage because it will create more jobs. They obviously don't live on minimum wage.

I have digressed. What was I talking about?

Comments

  1. I told people that my earliest memory was when I was not one yet. But now I can't even repeat a name that is just being introduced to me. I still believe that my memory is selective.

    We do not have minimum wage so I am not very familiar but still the combination of tips and minimum wage as minimum wage sounds not right to me.

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  2. I bet you could recount just about every word of 'Horton' too!

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  3. oceangirl, the idea of my memory having its own modus operandi makes me shudder. Maybe I need to feed it a pina colada or a slice of chocolate chocolate cake as a peace offering.
    :-)

    widdershins, nope, not a word can I remember. I had to even look up whether it was an exclamation point or a question mark at the end of the title.

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  4. My memory has never been all that good. It comes in spots, and tends to not include whatever I'm supposed to be doing right now.

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