Work Harder

Today was my weekly trip to my dad's in upstate NY, and I stopped at a small supermarket to pick up some things for lunch.

The guy ahead of me in the checkout line--tall, bearded, father of a young-teen daughter who was bagging for him--had a tattoo on his skull, curving around his left ear, that said "WORK HARDER."

What the--? Is it an admonition for the rest of us? A reminder or motivation for himself ... that he can only see if he looks in a mirror? In the alternate reality I conjured up to e...
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Published on January 21, 2023 15:31
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CarolineFromConcord Life is full of everyday mysteries.


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Francesca Forrest CarolineFromConcord wrote: "Life is full of everyday mysteries."

It is! And it's interesting to try to put together clues about a person, even though we're likely to be entirely wrong (likely to be revealing our own biases and prejudices).


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