Thanks, coach!

This is the Wapsie river valley, early in the morning. There's a river in there somewhere.

I created a little stir over the weekend by inadequately proofing a letter to the parents of an Iowa City junior high school. It was supposed to introduce our services to families, but it included a phrase expressing pleasure that they had chosen to seek our services. Ooops. My agency, and the school, recieved numerous calls on this and I'm lucky we have a good relationship with school staff. I used to have the same problem with BWR emails. Sometimes I just get "in a hurry."

My driver's education teacher was the High School baseball coach. He was a nice man, easily mimicked. He had sage advice for new drivers, as well as for life. It is as follows:

Don't be in a HURRY! I obviously don't always recall this one. Coach Hendershot always said that most problems, on the road, an elsewhere occur because people are in a hurry and if we weren't in a hurry we'd have fewer problems.

Don't be a HORN TOOTER! Coach insisted that folks who were going around horn tooting should have been paying attention to their own selves rather than running around tooting when they should be paying attention.

Yesterday, because I got in a hurry on Friday, we had to deal with a lot of horn tooters.

So it goes. Mea Culpa. I now have written a nice letter of apology for the school newsletter. I'm going to have someone proof my proof. Toot-toot!