Calendar Changes

[Greg Montalbano]

Kenneth Houghton, more in sorrow than anger:

>     Somehow, calling it "ridiculous behaviour" to object when one is 
>     dunned a full month's rent for 19 days--because "the calendar needs to 
>     be adjusted"--belies whether one is of the privileged class (e.g., 
>     George Washington, who adjusted his birthdate retroactively from Feb 
>     11, 1732, to Feb 22nd of that year) or the working, mercantile class 
>     (to whom rebates weren't given and earnings were reduced).
>


--Yep, that's where the money for MY trust fund came from.