"If you happened to miss this geopolitical crisis," it read, "don't feel bad — so did everyone else". Everyone, that is, except the book's author, Don Oberdorfer '52.
"Why does everyone have a grandma and grandpa except me?" my 4-year-old daughter asked me a couple of weeks ago as we snuggled on the couch.
Why does everyone seem to be talking happily with close friends except me?
Don't expect everyone (except the leader) to do it perfectly – the whole point is that people are doing it at all in a massive group.
During a show, I asked everyone to get up, and everyone did except one person.
Though I won't go so far as to say I don't think there are needy, insatiable and self-centered people out there, I will say that I don't think everyone, except us, is one.
Those 11 million or so people who are unemployed - and 47 million people still living in poverty - no longer have to feel like they're being gaslighted every time they hear how well the economy is doing... for everyone except them.
"When it became apparent that it could kill people, the FDA tried to get buyers clubs to pull it, and everyone did pull it, except Ron Woodroof," Staley recalls.
It used to be that you pretty much had to be famous to get your name on your grave; after the Civil War, nearly everyone did, except the poorest of the poor, interred in potter's fields.
Do this and, for everyone except the firms that invented the mess, the pain will likely subside.
