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Corniness is underrated.
Years ago, while stationed at Fort Campbell, KY, a woman talked me into going to bingo night at some club. Once there, the doorman handed me a disk that said, “TUIT”.
Confused, I asked what it meant and he said that people were always saying they’d come back to the club when they got “around to it” and that now that I had one, I wouldn’t have to wait so long.
And then he beamed at me like he’d told the world’s greatest joke.
I walked off, shaking my head at the lameness of it all. But in hindsight, I wish I’d done better. That man was willing to look foolish to make me feel welcome, and I was too caught up in my own world to appreciate it.
I wish I’d shown him the same generosity he’d shown me.
It was kind of funny.
