​​​​​​Because humor is funnier when you know it's true.

Smile,darn ya, smile!​​ (continued)

Well, know what? I’m friendly. I’m nice. I’m not in mothballs yet.

I’m going to smile!

(Just in case of the worst, will you arrange to pay my bail?)

I smile.

She smiles back.

“Good morning!” she says brightly. “Always nice to see a smile first thing in the morning!”

How about that?

So, fellow Boomer guys, always let a smile be your umbrella!

That the next young woman will smash you over the head with!

-Perry Block

Perry Block is a humorist living in Havertown, Pennsylvania, which is close enough to the Philadelphia Main Line so that he can wrongly brag he lives there. He has just published his first book about Baby Boomer life Perry Block-Nouveau Old, Formerly Cute, which also features parody, satire, and anything else you want.