Getting Recognized

It is unclear to me just why the school district staff felt compelled
to public recognition. I'm just an old guy with a checkbook. (It's
like axle grease, I tell people. The grease is important, but it is
the wheel that does the work.) When my father received a similar
certificate from the library in 1996 it was because he was too old to
continue volunteering to bring books to the jail. He was 83 then, so
I'm hoping for another couple of decades. Maybe they'll have to give
me a second appreciation.