It’s all about a usual day for me.  When the dental secretary called me the other day to remind me to come for my appointment, I answered, “What should I bring?”  and she hasn’t been able to get over the fact that I broke her routine.  

It is actually one of my favorite activities, ever since almost fifty years ago I came to the US Embassy library in Tel Aviv and told the librarian that I wanted to return these books.  “Why?”  He answered, “Is there something wrong with them?”  

It made my day.  

So I always like doing it to other people.  Some guy calls me to vote for him in the party’s primaries and asks if I am for his platform.  I haven’t been paying attention to the labor primaries, so I ask him what kind of car he’ll get if he wins.