Page FifteenThe Messenger, Union City, Tennessee, Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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Dear Annie: I have worked for many years at a small family-owned com-pany. I believe my boss has been the victim of a scam, but I can’t tell her.

For several years, my boss has been communicat-ing with a gentleman who claims to be Nigerian. He keeps telling her he is sup-posed to come to America in the near future and will bring her a check for $40 million. I don’t see it hap-pening. There are three peo-ple sending this man money. By now, they have prob-ably given him more than $100,000.

When I am at work, my boss asks whether the man has sent any emails, and if not, she wants me to write to him. Every few weeks, he says the trip has to be post-poned, and then he needs more money for a new tick-et. How do I tell her I don’t want to be involved with this any longer? — Seeing a Scam

Dear Seeing: The “Nige-rian scam” has been around for a very long time, and we are surprised people still fall for it. This man will never come to this country with $40 million, but he’s cer-tainly doing a good job of collecting money from na-ive people like your boss. Not only should you stop contacting this man, but you also should protect your boss by informing her that this is a scam and she should report it to the local FBI office or register a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. Of course, if she chooses to ignore you and contact him on her own, there is nothing you can do. Some people have to learn the hard way.

Dear Annie: My husband and I live on a quiet dead-end street. Quiet, that is, un-til the neighbors rev up their Harleys. They have two mo-torcycles that have been al-tered to be much louder than the factory intended. These neighbors often come home well after midnight and sometimes leave early on Sunday mornings, making it impossible to sleep with our bedroom window open.

When they travel back and forth during the day, the thunderous noise is quite disturbing. I realize that some Harley owners

feel that the loud pipes and leather are a form of pres-tige, but I wonder whether they ever consider their neighbors. Please, Harley owners, pipe down! — Hate Those Harleys

Dear Hate: Have you asked your neighbors di-rectly whether they would please muffle the noise un-til they are out on the open road? Does your neighbor-hood have a noise ordinance prohibiting such volume at certain hours? Is there a neighborhood association to resolve conflicts? Don’t give up without first check-ing to see whether you have any recourse in the matter.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Helpless, Tired Granny,” who is raising her four grandchildren, and two of them are terribly messed up. That letter moved me. My two oldest sons were wonderful little boys, but something changed in mid-dle school, and they became rebellious and angry. They would skip school and run away. They were so out of control that we could not have family events.

Counseling didn’t work until we took our older boy to a psychiatrist when he be-gan using drugs. They even-tually were both diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Now, even though we still have our ups and downs, we have our happy family back, and my sons are preparing for their futures.

My suggestion for “Help-less” is to get help. She should get a referral to a psychiatrist and find out whether her local health de-partment has a program for grandparents in her situa-tion. Government programs have a lot to offer, but you have to ask. She needs to be strong. — Been There

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Mar-cy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syn-dicate, 737 Third St., Her-mosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

97TH BIRTHDAY — Myrtle Harton of Union City re-cently celebrated her 97th birthday at the Reelfoot Lake home of Bill and Ginny Acree. The festive birthday cel-ebration was attended by members of Mrs. Harton’s family as well as many of her friends.

High school graduation season has come and gone. This time of year always brings back memories of my own high school gradu-ation 32 years ago. Remem-ber all those cords, sashes and honors paraphernalia that you wore over your graduation gown? Yeah ... me neither.

I didn’t graduate with honors. I wasn’t in Beta Club or any other “smart kid” club. Lots of my friends proudly wore the cords and sashes which, of course, made me look even worse in the gradua-tion pictures. I’m sure they look at the pictures now and say, “Wait a second. Who’s that big blonde girl and why would we let that non-sash-wearing underachiever in our graduation picture?” I was fun, people. I was fun. Remember?

I didn’t get athletic schol-arships either. I was 6 foot tall with no hand-eye coor-dination. I know. It’s a bum-mer. My basketball coach thought so, too. So much height. So little talent.

Music scholarship? Not quite. I played piano for two years though I think the word “played” might be a little generous. I did put my fingers on the keys but sadly, music was not the fi-nal result. Don’t even bring up the year I played the vio-lin. The screeching sound scared the neighborhood children and killed the rose bush outside my bedroom window.

Of course, there was the French Club. But I didn’t speak French so that was out. The Spanish Club al-ways served food in their meetings. But an intense desire to eat tortilla chips and salsa didn’t seem like a noble reason to join a club.

I was never voted “Most

Likely to Succeed” or even “Class Clown.” If I had been assigned a designation in high school, it would have been “Most likely to hang out with the band kids even though she can’t play an in-strument.” Some of my 500 classmates probably don’t even remember my name.

Guess what? It doesn’t matter. At all. Thankfully, my destiny in adulthood wasn’t carved out by an in-secure teenage girl 32 years ago. High school didn’t define me. And if you’re a teenager, good or bad, it doesn’t define you either.

Even if you’re the presi-dent of every club, the best athlete, the Valedictorian, you’re still a teenager. You have a lot to learn. Listen to adults. Pay attention to people who get up early ev-ery morning and go to work day after day year after year. They have more wis-dom than you can possibly imagine.

Become a student of kind-ness. Learn what it means to keep working even when you’re tired. Show respect for people who are often treated disrespectfully. Don’t be afraid of failure as it’s the necessary stepping stone for almost every suc-cessful person.

Oh, and if you’re a teen-ager who hasn’t been much of a “stand out” yet, worry not. Life is still waiting. It’s not too late to discover your passions and abilities. It’s never too late to make a plan for your life. And if you happen to be a loud, tall, fun-loving, under-achieving teenage girl with no hand-eye coordination, start writing.

For more information about Lisa Smartt, visit her website, lisasmartt.com. She may be contacted at lisa@lisasmartt.com.

Here’s to late bloomers

FIVE GENERATIONS — Opal Chilton, 90, of Hornbeak recently visited with her great-great-grandson, Rob Sto-ver of Union City; (standing, from left) her granddaugh-ter, Laina Torres of Troy; her great-granddaughter, Stevie Stover of Union City; and her daughter, Glenda Towery of South Fulton.

Obion County Senior Citi-zens Center has announced the following activities for June 10-14 at the Eddie Cox Senior Center in Union City. The center is open from 8:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Monday: Shuffleboard will be played at 8:30 a.m., followed by Bingo at 9 and crafts at 10. A SilverSneak-ers® exercise class will be held at 11. Canasta will be played at 1 p.m. and domi-noes will be played from 1-4 p.m. A line dance class will be held at 7.

Tuesday: Cinch and Rook will be played 8:30 a.m.-noon. A SilverSneakers® water aerobics class will be held at noon at Synergy. Ca-nasta and dominoes will be played at 12:30 p.m.

Wednesday: Cinch and Rook will be played 8:30 a.m.-noon. A blood pressure clinic will be held from 10-11. A SilverSneakers® ex-ercise class will be held at 11. A birthday meal will be served at noon. It will be an indoor picnic and games will be played. Mah Jong will be played at 1 p.m.

Thursday: Bridge will be played noon until 4 p.m. A SilverSneakers® water aerobics class will be held at noon at Synergy. The Larry Frye Band will perform 7-9:30. There will a $5 admis-sion.

Friday: Shuffleboard will be played at 8:30 a.m. Tai Chi will be held at 9. Line dancing will begin at 10.

For more information, call Margaret Cook at 885-1246.

Senior center events set

Memphis-based Turner Dairy Foods is marking the beginning of the summer ice cream season with its “Of-ficial Ice Cream Flavor of Summer” Contest.

Now through July 28, consumers may visit Turn-erDairy.com to vote for their favorite ice cream fla-vor and enter for a chance to win a year’s supply of Turner Dairy Ice Cream.

Turner Dairy offers a wide variety of ice cream, sher-bet, frozen yogurt and nov-elty flavors, including Old Fashioned Vanilla, Moose Tracks and its new Praline Pecan Turtle Sundae.

For more information, visit http://turnerdairy.en-voydev.com/flavorofsum-mer/.

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