Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for February 22, 2012

There’s a born loser for you.

You mean a credit card doesn’t fix anything that needs fixing?

Surely there must be an app for this?

Usually it’s the roaming charges that kill you.

But will the minutes roll over into your next life?

It was Samara, thus the title of the novel, Appointment in Samara.

The other joke is about the 30-something lawyer who meets the Grim Reaper and complains it’s not yet his time.

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So the Reaper checks the books, and discovers the error: he was using the lawyer’s billed hours rather than lived hours. . . .

@bmonk: lol!

Should have installed that security peep-hole last week! DOH!

He shouldn’t have tossed his TRACphone.

Did he at least have time to pick his carriers?

Moral: Be sure to read the fine print on your long-term cell phone contracts.