Re: (TV) More Laughs

[Micah <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>]

Small related note: I have developed the odd habit of taking my ass out on a Sunday afternoon and go bowl a couple lines. I'll buy a hamburger, get the local pale ale, and practice my Rooster on Acid moves rolling the rock.

Last Sunday, I finished up, grabbed my beer and walked into the bar. I was sitting chewing the fat with bartender. A bunch of Denver and Seattle fans were setting up in front of the wide-screen. 

I'm minding my own business when a older lady sits down right next to me. Her purse is clutched to her chest and she just leans into her conversation...with me.

"Oh, my husband? He's bowling with his friends. We took our grandkids out to McDonalds. They love McDonalds. They went back and told their Mommy. They are so sweet. "Mommy, mommy, we should go there!."

I looked her in the eye, tried to make contact. No dice. She just looked around and said

"Oh, my husband? He's bowling with his friends. We took our grandkids out to McDonalds. They love McDonalds. They went back and told their Mommy. They are so sweet. "Mommy, mommy, we should go there!"

I tried to be cool. I think I  succeeded. She picked herself up off the barstool and wondered back into the lanes. I watched her walk back and forth a couple times. The kid behind the bar finally returned and asked "Can I get you another one?"

M.


"Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov> wrote: Lori wrote:
>Leo, I love that you started this discussion. It's not
>typical of the **high-minded** topics we so often find
>here.

Lori
I guess you didn't read all the way to the bottom. 
Down where there was a barrel of laughs-'analysis'
---stuff about me always harping on Tom's cig 
habit just to distract myself from remembering that 
I'm gonna die! :>)

I can't remember which of the 1960's W. Coast bands 
were on the soundtrack to the movie Zabriskie's Point" 
besides Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Grateful 
Dead. But the movie's leading man, Mark Halperin[?], 
had just gotten out [escaped] from Mel Lyman's 
'Pychedelic-Fascism'-Commmune a-top Roxbury's Fort Hill.  
(Mark H. was later murdered in a maximum security prison 
while serving 30 yrs for being the getaway driver of a 
Weathermen/Kathy Boudin bank robbery.) In "Zabriskie 
Point" he has the line, "I'm not afraid to die, I'm 
afraid of being bored".  

In a Nursing Home I visited awhile back to see a relative, 
her entire (3rd) floor was devoted to people with advanced 
senility or Alzheimer's.  It was close to noon so about 50 
residents of the 3rd floor were all sitting in one of 
the long hallways. There was one woman named Ida in her 
mi-70's, who I had noticed during a couple of previous 
visits; she seemed a lot sharper than the others, and looked 
as if she really didn't belong on that floor. 

Just as my brother and I were about to leave, she started 
shouting at the top of her lungs to the other residents, 
"None of us is getting out of here alive!  We're all going 
to die! None of us is going to get out of here alive!" over-and-
over-and-over-and ... 
But one of the few silver linings of suffering from Dementia:
not a single resident showed the slightest reaction. 
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