By Dr. Shirley Glibb

BREATHE IN AND OUT: To be hired as a therapist at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I to go to a third floor office for a medical insurance checkup. When the doctor held his stethoscope to my back and told me, "Breathe in and out," I hesitated, thinking, "How else can I breathe?" My hesitation worried him.

Later, going into the bathroom on the same floor, I encountered a sign: "Toilet out of order. Please use floor below." So I did.