“Have you seen the Helen Keller quarter?” asked my employee.<\/p>\n
“Yes,” I replied with a shrug. What had this to do with anything?<\/p>\n
He said nothing for a few moments. Then, “There’s a Helen Keller quarter?”<\/p>\n
A bizarre turn. “She’s on the Alabama quarter.”<\/p>\n
“Helen Keller is on a quarter?”<\/p>\n
Now thoroughly confused by this turn of conversation, I said, “What are you on about?”<\/p>\n
“I thought it was a joke,” said he. “I would ask, ‘Have you seen the Helen Keller quarter.’ Then you would say you hadn’t, then I would reply, ‘That’s okay, Helen Keller hasn’t either.'”<\/p>\n
All I could do was bury my head in my hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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