And That's Why I can't Go to the Library
It all started with a bottle cap. In those days I worked at the Holiday Inn on Sprinkle Road. I used to meet coworkers at Bell's Brewery about once a month; we called it a Front Desk Meeting even though I worked in housekeeping at the time. Tim could no longer work or play guitar, so he spent a lot of time watching TV. He'd usually have thoughtful questions for me by the time I got home. This is how I could tell what he'd been watching. "If you could take any person out of history - and it can't be someone easy, like Hitler - who would it be?" He looked at me placidly, waiting for an answer. "Just a second," I said, looking at my hands still full of things brought in from the car. "I have to think. Any other clues?" His face remained static so I went to the kitchen and put things down. I heard him respond from around the corner. "For me, it would be the guy who invented bottle caps ." So it was the History Channe...