A 1986 Pantene commercial carried the tagline “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Beautiful.”
Similarly, I must ask my readers, “Don’t hate me because I’ve heard a rooster crow.”
I tend to get up at the crack of dawn, even though I eventually encounter a lot of grumpy people who wish they had the energy to show dawn their … well, never mind.
Despite working the graveyard shift from age 23 to age 37, and…