“Knowledge without understanding is useless.” – Analects, Confucius (551 – 479 BCE)

Highlight of any toddler birthday-party is opening the presents. Mommy saved the best for list, a bills-and-whistles car-dashboard, working lights, windshield-wipers, the works.

We ask the three year-old if he knows how to use it.

“Sure, I do!” he replies confidently.

Leans on the horn with his right hand, raises his left middle-finger, turning to that side: “Where did you learn how to drive, you stupid mother-fuzzer?!”

(Mommy quickly removes it.)

50 years earlier, returning to my medical-staff-housing apartment from the hospital, after closing my door, someone immediately pounds on it.

I open it. No one there. Start to close it, hear “Uncle........

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