Ed, my neighbor next door, hardly ever misses a hometown hockey game. Of course I ran into him at a hockey game the other night. “Are you in the right place?” he asked. “This place is filled with excitement and action. People…

Ed, my neighbor next door, tells me repeatedly that the greeter position at Walmart stores has to be one of the dumbest jobs ever created. His exact words are, “No one wants someone eyeballing you as you come in the store. People…

“You‘ve been burning the midnight oil – how come?” Ed, my neighbor next door, demanded of me yesterday at the post office. “I saw your office light on when I came home late Monday night. Are you counting your money at midnight…

Ed, my neighbor next door, says he has no patience for listening to what he has heard before. Ed is a talker and it has to be some earth-shaking news to get him to listen to someone else. Ed says that the…

Ed, my neighbor next door, has hit the restless rapids of winter whitewater. He claims that since the middle of January he feels like he could drown in monotony. In spite of weekly curling, twice weekly bowling and daily coffee chats with…

Ed, my neighbor next door, doesn’t like to go to a buffet, as he says there are too many food items to choose from. He ends up trying most of them because they all look good and then he resents the ones…

Ed, my neighbor next door, is a pessimist! When things turn out bad, he is quick to say, “Things always go from bad to worse.” When circumstances are undeniably good, he insists, “It won’t last!” All December, Ed said, “This good weather…

Ed, my neighbor next door, describes Christmas as his gear down time and New Year’s Eve a full speed forward time. Having applied the brakes to Christmas spending, Ed takes great satisfaction in his annual New Year’s Eve party. It is his…