I turned and took a deep breath and gave a long hard stare-down to the pump host of “Gas Pump Jeopardy.”

Mr. and Mrs. Doyon were our neighbors when I was a kid. We lived out in the country and they were our only neighbors within a mile or so....

“Sign, sign Everywhere a sign Blockin' out the scenery Breakin' my mind Do this, don't do that Can't you read the sign?” That’s how the...