Dear Folks, This evening I was talking on the phone with my Good Buddy Dan here in Youngstown and as usual we exchanged comments of how the past couple of days have been going in our individual lives. This evening he told me of something that happened during his coffee break today with the men that he works with. Their boss had sent them a group letter in which he complimented all of them for the work that they had done recently regarding the heavy snow removal. Everyone read it and were pleased with the exception of "Cliff." Cliff was indignant that the boss COMPLAINED about the work that they had done. The rest of the guys couldn't understand where he was coming from. Note: Cliff is a graduate of our local high school and is in his mid 40s. After a few minutes of questioning Cliff they eventually realized that he had misread the word "compliment" as "complaint." After they explained the difference between the two words, Cliff just passed it off nonchalantly and with a note of pride in his voice let them know that he hasn't read a book since high school and even in school he only read what was absolutely required of him to pass. Frankly, I'm still in a state of semi shock. I wonder how Cliff's kids are faring in school under his tutelage. I apologize for getting up on my soap box this evening on the subject. vee