This is going too far . .French now fear the weekend dance floor. There is a faceless assailant who swiftly sneaks up on ladies and gives them a shot in the arm with unknown contents. The only way the victim finds out is a red dot surrounding a bruise the next day.
Now having been ON a Fr. dance floor I can tell you with certainty that frogs don't dance; they hop. Up and down hop hop hop.
But it is rather a harsh punishment don' you agree? Nausea cramps - I forget
Maybe LePen can do something.
In the course of an ordinary slip and fall, I put a gash in the back of my head that required stitches aka in today's world as "staples."It wasn't particully painful until I went to bed - right on the 5 staples. Ow! But after that they got over themselves and life went on.
Today they'd done the required seven days and could come out. The ER house doctor called to tell me to come into the ER for staples Doctor calls patient -STOP PRESSES!
It was painful but nothing you could't stand.
I'm not in stitches now. Turn off the presses.
This happened yesterday. Phone rings. male identifies as "your favorite nephew"
Sad story ensues ; nose broken; four stitches in jail; needs bail; don't tell parents (My real nephew is 40 )
Enter lawyer on the phone explaining how to get bail from LA to Conn.
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The way I found out about this was when the local paper started running a column of famous peoples birthdays that day And there we both were. Same year, month
What else might we share?t ? Place of birth - East Harlem.
Axtel General Hospiital Newton, Kansas Free bushel of good Kansas wheat with every birth.
One of several actors to win an Oscar, Emmy, Tony. I -once walked across the stage in a little theater production
H`APPY BIRTHAY AL !
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To share birthdays by halving the times between them. Here is an example using family. My younger sister 's in a suburb near Chicago. You know where I am. Redondo Breach - It makes sense to meet in t somewhere middle somewhere agreeable to both. But where would we go? We almost simultaneously said South Texas where we have cousins we both love. Meet in San Antinio.
But WHEN? And I said "Split the difference
She's early November; I'm end of April so `April to Nov is 8 months - July
When South Texas is roaringly hot. No worries - all of Texas is air conditioned
Now we can start this great plan with Sis this July. or not. We both love to party...
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I like this as it was clearly well-researched = bed superstitions all things
Never put your hat on your bed --Never sleep with your head to the North
Always get in and out and out of your bed on the same side (What? you could get lost?)
If married, be wary of this one - sleep with an axe under the bed.
Exiting to let you go to boredpanda.com
2 p.m. doctor's appt. Routine
Seniors all over are bored and looking for amusement so, I read some where they are open to various hobbies. In their groups they are making coffins .
My own fa-in-law and his brother having priced them decided to make their own, "After all we are carpenters." But nothing happened and in the end; they went commercial.
Tip -
our local supermarket - Ralph's is having their periodic sale of cocktail shrimp. Get there if you possibly can lovely fat pink shrimp ' $5
But you'd have to be living in 1914. That's when the Titanics sank Today - April 14, 1914
Never loathe to make fun of something I Googled "Titanc jokes" and several sites popped up. A couple of them are offered here."Want to play Titanic? Every time I say Titanic you go down on me."
Passenger asks the Captain, How close are we to land? " "2 miles." "Which direction?" "Down"
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Where the pool is always filled."
Yesterday's column was as badly ' written as I've written in some time. Let's see if I can do a better job today,
How did I know they were H'mooners? The first thing they orderedwas a bottle of champagne ad They told me and then, unhappy Honeymooners in Booth #1 sent back their filet mignons.
On receiving the perfectly good steaks Chef goes mad and sends me back with the steaks and a scathing lecture on the fine art of butchering . At the daughty Mermaid filet mignon is served with a fine ruff of fat around the darling little steak which of course is what put them off their food so to speak.
This was not airy lacy fat not by a long by a long shot but Chef adamantly defended his choice of cut. It adds more flavor He came out to apologize to the customers and with a split of (cheap you may be sure)champagne they were thrilled at having met the fabled Chef (only well known in various rehabs)
They paid the tab, gave me a nice fat tip "for getting that scary chef away from us " we all went to our various homes.
Chef took a breather - several shots of rum that would render the average drinker prone - on a bad night he thought he was in Nicaragua where Rum is - the water of Nic
Boots gave me my schedule and stations. The whole lunch room counter and in the main room 1st booth on the left. Mrs. Boots had the all of the rest of them. Maybe she appreciated the proximity to the bar. GIVEN WHAT I'D SEEN I believed it.
The counter - lunch was never busy but it does remind as if I needed it how much I hated clean-up night when the catsup bottles were "married" which sounded a great deal more sexy than it was. Whoever had the duty put one bottle neck - one on top of the other then the counter tops got a scrubbing that in the future would foreshadow Covid 19
One lovely summer day, I had a table of five; all males; One in a wheelchair. Viet Nom I surmised. We laughed and joked among ourselves. A fun lunch and then the check came. Out came the tab and while I'd never had any trouble with non-payers about it I was a rookie. But none of that at that table!
I was scanning it to make sure their adding was correct. Not only wasn't it just fine but they each had tipped me $20 cash collectively $100. I reeled in schock as I looked at $100 cash monnney, I'm would never do so before good sense too k over, I went running past Boots in his doorway screaming to the guys "You paid too much! Wait! "That's 'way too much, holding out my money-filled palms." The guys dusted a mist of sweat off of themselved , explained that
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Their proud management loved it that there were three doors in and out. Few wanted to get in; many more wanted out everyone except Boots and Mrs. Boots she who drank Gin &Tonics her whole shift. By quitte'n time she was fairly well toasted
The first started at the counter - scenic views of the kitchen and chef. Next the only flicker of elegance in the whole place - the dining room with the bar, a horseshoed shaped structure with a bartender right out of Star Wars. The bathrooms were all the way in the back of the building.
It wasn't until in a ramble around, wondering to see what shift I'd be assigned I "discovered" the formal dining room used for catered private parties. The outside catering saved them all from ptomain poisoning.
There real appeal for me was observation of these denizens of their version of "work" One slow evening, I got tutored about kitchen fires by the chef rather vehemently I thought. The thrust of his instructions: Never use water on a fire. Use milk instead. with that and brief finger shake, he slammed down his 4th or 5th shot of straight vodka and turned back to a smoking hot skillet- you could tell -because sweat was pouring off of him.
This has been an introduction to the place. Now what were the people saying and doing?
Billed as the best dive bar in the South Bay and is locking up after a 70 year gig.
It was also my first and last waitress job. Hired and fired.
Richie and I had recently been married d I was beginning to learn how to live beach side after having moving down here from Beverly Hills. You can be poor there. "90210" I think. it was. TV Serial
Now this new residence was in a 2-beroom in The Peppertree. And so were we in one of them
On this midweek stroll down the Strand I passed a window that roared: HELP WANTED
The Mermaid was that window.
There weren't any customers at 2 p.m. only a man sitting on a stool in the doorway to the parking lot. with a beer in one hand and a cheap cigar in the other* He introduced himself " Boots "and asked me to return the next day for an interview.
I was happy to agree. How did I know it was cheap? The smell, my friends
Richie was home and listened intently as I related my story .
Sidebar: Richie didn't care if I worked or not., he warned me RIGHT AFTER THE VOWS.all I want when I get home is for you to be in a good mood." Read, file that on e.and of all things ACT NICE
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What to wear to this all-important interview with this Boots character. I looked at my opened closet door. and mulled the contents.
If I'd known my work clothes would consist of white jeans and a white tee-shirt and a yellow carpenters nailing apron ...
Today, April 2 was one of the several-times a year -Friend of the Redondo Beach Main Library. Book S
We never miss one. Why? The prices! Paperbacks 50 cents Hardbacks $1
Everything else is separately marked. The savings are incredible.
50 cents
Lee Child Killing Floor (1 of his first) and Burning Echo
John Grisham The Testament and Gray Mountain
Jeffrey Deaver The Coffin Dancer
Janet Evanovitch Hard Eight
P.J. O'Rourk e
all the Trouble In the World
Though a soft cover I think it's $1
$8. total bill and these are not skinny little pamphlets easily 500 pages per book
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Greg Iles Dead Sleep
Actors like John Wilkes Booth who was the actor who was the man - and actor - who shot Abe Lincoln. He fled, toward Virginia, arriving at a tobacco barn where he died at 2.am. on April 26 1865. He was 26.
More recently actor Brandon Lee,28 was shot to death accidentally during the filming of a movie in Wilmington NC
April 1st 22 was his birthday
Willie Nelson's - slightly altered. "Mammas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys'.)be actors (original was 'cowboys.')
