Freecycle is a local Yahoo group on which people post things that they no longer want and then other people who would like those items email the poster about their interest.  Saturday, I posted a bunch of textbooks.  Am I ever going to peruse that Differential Equations text?  I don’t think so.  But I’m not able to give up the Complex Variables or Abstract Algebra text just yet.  Why?  Do I really think that one day I’ll sit down and try to reteach it to myself?  Actually, I was able tp let go of the Calculus book by thinking that one day I’ll have to tutor calculus and will need to get the student’s book anyway. 

Back to Freecycle.  I posted my textbooks and received several replies asking for them.  How to choose?  Ir’s very hard for me to decide on anything.  So I decided to choose the replies that used capitalization and punctuation. 

I picked:

Hi Kathryn,

I would like the accounting book and any of the chemistry/math books
that you can spare.  I can pick them up today…just let me know what
time would work for you.

Instead of:

I feel old.