I am usually intimidated by fussy institutions.

City halls, motor vehicle departments, IRS offices, banks, and libraries
always turn me off, often turn me down and sometimes actually turn me out.

They make me feel like an amateur kazoo player who is trying to audition
for the New York Philharmonic.

Gene Newman was a USAF cryptologist during the Korean War and is a retired engineer and journalist, including stringing for the N.Y. Times, being a crossword puzzle creator for the New York Times and USA Today. That’s it for now unless he gets better on the kazoo.