No Nursing Home for Us!
No nursing home for us. We are checking into the Holiday Inn!
With the average cost for nursing home care costing $188.00 per day, there is a better way when we get old & feeble. We have already checked on reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long-term stay discount and senior discount, it's $49.23 per night. That leaves $138.77 a day for: Breakfast, lunch and dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service as well as laundry, gratuities and special TV movies. Plus, they provide a swimming pool, a workout room, a lounge and washer-dryer, etc. Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free shampoo and soap.
$5 worth of tips a day will have the entire staff scrambling to help you. They treat you like a customer, not a patient.
There is a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free. The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you carry a cane or fake a decent limp).
To meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.
For a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice restaurants there. While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the cash keeps building up.
It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today. And you are not stuck in one place forever, you can move from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city. Want to see Hawaii? They have a Holiday Inn there too.
TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress replaced? No problem. They fix everything, and apologize for the inconvenience.
The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are OK. If not, they will call the undertaker or an ambulance. If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life rather than be sued.
And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days of mini-vacation.
Even the grand kids can use the pool.
What more can you ask?
We’re at that golden age…so face it with a grin.
At Last... A Wine for Our Group
A Little Give-and-Take
At a Consumer Products General Sales Meeting, the new "Double Tough" line of tumblers (water glasses), was being introduced by Cam Rutledge, then the division general sales manager. Pyrex salesmen from all over the country were there. At the sales meeting, Cam introduced with appropriate fanfare the company's new advertising slogan: "Corning Means Research in Glass."
After listening attentively to Cam's dissertation on the new slogan, one not-at-all-reticent salesman stood up and said: "Cam, Corning may mean research in glass, but Libby means business! What are we going to do about that?"
(Thanks and a tip o' th' cap to Art Rutan for this one… and the next)
There's Always a Way... We Just Have to Look for It
In the mid-30's, at the Fallbrook plant, Corning was experimenting and developing the process for manufacturing fiberglass. The early product was essentially fiberglass batting for building insulation. Shipping was done via railway freight, because the over-the-road trucking industry as we know it today had not yet evolved. Rail freight rates for glass products were very high.
So high were the shipping rates for this new fiber glass product that the struggling business was in danger of folding… until someone in a problem-solving exercise suggested that since the word "glass" was the root of the problem, why not drop one "s" and call the product Fiberglas. And the ensuing joint venture with Owens Illinois Glass to form Owens-Corning Fiberglas allowed the product to slip through the high-freight loophole and grow into the highly successful pink product of today that is very much in the black.
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Incident on the "Wall Trolley"
As a brand-new employee, your editor was going with David Davin - a fellow PR type - from the 9-story building (Corporate Communications/PR was on the 3rd floor then) to the Photo-media Department in the Main Plant complex. Already on the elevator as we stepped in were Amo Houghton and R. Lee Waterman. Seeing that Dave gave me a grin and a nudge, Amo asked Dave what was so funny. His response: "It's just nice to see the overhead going down." Everyone had a good laugh and I knew then that I had joined the right company.
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