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Publisher’s Note
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DECEMBER 2019
November 2019
Where’s Monty Python When We Need Him?
Host of the South
As many of you know, I’m not much of a philosopher. (In fact, as Carol
Florida Healthcare delights in pointing out — I probably can’t even spell the word without Spell
Check!) I generally accept life as it comes and deal with it according “to
Networking Group Charles.” Nothing too deep, nothing a new camera won’t solve, let’s just get
the job done — sort of a Monty Python outlook without the coconuts.
So, for this month’s Publisher’s Note, I’m faced with a conundrum (another
gift from Spell Check). Do I bore you with my business ideas or bore you with
my latest exploits? Well, lucky for you I’d much rather tell you about my lat-
est run-in with the law — specifically Carol’s Law of Gift Cards!
Carol (a.k.a. Scrooge) believes that when you get a gift card, you only pur-
chase something for the value of the card without additional cash upgrades.
Have you ever tried to go to Best Buy with a $25 gift card? Short of buying a
BROWARD pack of batteries (of which I already have a year’s supply), it’s almost impos-
HEALTH CORAL sible. So, then I decided to TRY to engineer a trade with her. I would swap her a $25 Macy’s gift card I’d gotten for Father’s
Day for $25 in cash, which I could then add to my $25 Best Buy card, leaving me with the $50 I needed for my new camera
SPRINGS gadget. Some might call this a no-brainer. Well welcome to my world — Carol’s response was that we would then be OUT
$25 in cash for a frivolous purchase, thus defeating the purpose of using the Macy’s gift card for something I actually need,
For information about and will no doubt eventually purchase … (This is where I usually think about riding off into the sunset on one of those
our next meeting of fake Spamalot horses!) Then I tried the old, “They might go out of business like all the other electronics
stores …,” line. To which Carol replied, “If you keep spending $25 here or there, we will be joining
SFHNG, them!”
please email But back to Monty Python … the holidays are approaching and while they might not be the perfect
season we would all like (free of exhausting politics and dire predictions) … if you’re reading this —
charles@ you’re still kicking and breathing! So, my holiday gift to all of you is this suggestion: rent a copy of a
southfloridahospitalnews.com Monty Python movie, pop some popcorn and for Carol’s sake, don’t go adding cash to those gift card
purchases!
As I’ve said for the past 15 years, whether you celebrate with a Christmas Goose
or Gefilte Fish, say Feliz Navidad or Happy Kwanzaa, have
a wonderful holiday and a safe and Happy New Year! Charles Felix

You can reach Charles Felix at Charles@southfloridahospitalnews.com
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