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Posted August 2, 2008 by adminAn edited version of his letter was to be published in To Thailand With Love, ThingsAsian Press, 2013. But at the last moment, the Editor made a different decision.
Bangk0k Thailand
02 August 2008
My Dear My0pic, Hyper0pic, and Fellow 20/20 Friends,
My classmate Jack Calabro had a neat trick.
My Taft High School classmate, and later, my University of Illinois graduate school classmate, Jack protected his mother from unnecessary worry.
Jack's mother wanted to know when we were leaving Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and when we would be arriving in New York. We would be driving all night across Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, with a slight dip into West Virginia. As dawn arrived, we would steer into the sunrise across Pennsylvania to New Jersey and then north to New York. That's a long drive, even on Interstate highways. A mother could worry a lot.
So what was the trick? Jack knew when we were leaving and could estimate when we would arrive. So, the "departure" time he gave his mother was actually our arrival time! She was so surprised!
Here's my contribution to the concept of worry avoidance:
I am pleased to report to you that I have undergone and recovered from two lens replacement surgeries.