Musings on like versus as.
“Is, am, are, was, were,” I said to myself.
“Is, am, are, was, were,” I repeated.
I was exhausted from the tense exercise, but I was determined to continue.
“Is, am, are, was, were,” I said again.
Ding Dong! Ding Dong! Ding Dong!
The doorbell rang. As I usually do in these moments, I opened the door with aplomb.
“Well well well, my dear old Aunt Ruth,” I said, greeting my guest.
She stood there staring at me as a shark might stare at its dinner. She said nothing.
“Aren’t you supposed to say something?” I asked.
“Like what?” she countered.
“Trick or treat,” I replied. “Your witch costume had me fooled for a moment. Where did you park your broom?” I feigned looking up and down the street for her vehicle.
Wham!
It took me a moment to gather my thoughts after being hit full force in the head with her umbrella, but I regained my senses and asked her to enter my humble abode.
“Thank you, darling nephew with a lump on his head. Don’t mind if I do. Witch costume indeed,” she huffed as she crossed the threshold.
“Where did you get that fake nose with the wart,” I asked, reaching my hand toward her face.
Wham!
You’d think I would learn. After I picked myself up off the floor, I vowed to be as hospitable as I could be for the remainder of her visit.
“Care for a sip of elderberry wine?” I offered.
She turned pale momentarily before responding, “No, uh, no thank you, darling nephew with two lumps on his head.” Ever since we had seen the movie “Arsenic and Old Lace” together, she refused to drink anything I offered, saving me a bundle in entertainment refreshments. The two bucks I spent at the dollar theater turned out to be the best investment I had ever made.
“Well what brings you here?” I asked. “I mean, besides your broom.”
“Well you see, I’m stressed. You might say I’m stressed like a cat in a room full of dogs.”
“You are as stressed as a cat in a room full of dogs.”
“That’s what I said.”
“No, you used like where you should have used as.”
“What’s the difference? People interchange those all the time. They’ve been doing it for hundreds of years.”
I think this is…marvelous lol You are teaching us the appropriate use of words and entertaining us as well 
Please, keep those articles going on, I had a great time.
I laughed as a kid at the circus would (or something like that) )
Cute.
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