The women who answer our phones have tallied 33 calls of complaint that the daily horoscope has disappeared from the paper. Who knows how many others are unable to face their days without the daily dose of astrology?
But I'm learning from the comments that have drifted upstairs that the daily horoscope isn't a necessity of life. It's just a harmless habit, one that lots of folks enjoy.
Cindy, whose last name will go unmentioned because she reads her horoscope when she's supposed to be working for one of the largest employers in town, said the horoscope is her morning ritual.
"We just have a nice little chitchat in our department before we start our day, and it wakes us up, and we move on," she writes, using her work e-mail.
One of the women in her office says she knows how to deal with her husband after she reads her horoscope. Another says she just likes to be entertained.
I don't suppose the news plays the same role as a useful and amusing horoscope.
