Math is important. And so are history, grammar, and chemistry.

But does it disturb anyone else that public education doesn't teach ART anymore? Creative writing? Theatre? Dance? Music? Drawing, sculpting, or painting?

I'm going to make a really dramatic metaphor: Creativity is the tide that refreshes the otherwise stagnant pool of knowledge. Those geniuses that we idolize - Martin Luther King, the NASA scientists who put Neil Armstong on the moon, Albert Einstein and William Shakespeare - None of them would have amounted to anything if they didn't know how to think creatively, approach a problem in a different way, consider more than just what a textbook told them to do.

(Ring, Ring)
Me: "Good Afternoon, this is ______. Kathleen speaking."
Person: "Bob."
Me: "I'm sorry?"
Person: "Bob. Now."
Me: "One moment please."

That Asshole is going to voicemail, and if he calls back I'm just letting it ring.

"Bob, Please" would have gotten a MUCH different response, and in the end one simple, polite word would have saved this prick an awful lot of trouble.

For anyone out there who deals with secretaries, assistants, receptionists, or any other phone-shackled human being, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE just say please!