Your story reminds me of a quote attributed to Isaac Stern. A woman came up to him after a concert and said “I’d give my life to play like you” and he replied “Lady, that’s what I did!”
My friend is an artist, and what drives him nuts is when people look at his work and say “it must be nice to be born with a talent like that.” Yes. That and about a trillion hours of practice and study and discipline.
Next time I am at a restaurant and I can’t get the waiter to come over I am going to put my plate in my mouth and go kick on the door of the kitchen. I bet it will work!
Old Joke: There is a British couple driving across Canada and they get a little lost. They see a local standing by the road so they decide the husband should ask where they are.
British Man: Excuse me sir? Can you tell us where we are?Local: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.The man returns to the car.His wife says: "What did he tell you?“Bad luck dear. Apparently he doesn’t speak English!”
Remember the old days when it was assumed we would have meat at every meal? Now I need a signed note from my cardiologist :) BTW you are both wrong beef stew is delicious!
When I was a teenager I didn’t have money for comics, and as a young man I didn’t have time for comics. Now I am retired and I have a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, and I am making up for my mis-spent youth! But I wish I could find old copies of Sad Sack. Those were big in my house for some reason.
I have a “Snoopy for President” sticker on my car right now! Why not? He’s a war veteran, athlete, and he has charisma. And I like his “anti-cat” platform. But Linus in the cabinet definitely. Maybe Secretary of State?
“We won’t have you believing in somebody’s crazy, made-up story! We want you to believe in our crazy made-up story!” Sorry for the snark, but doesn’t it feel that way?
And BTW I did actually see the Great Grape once. I was wine tasting in Sonoma, and it got late, and I got lost in one of the vineyards. There was a full moon that night…
Are there any schools left who are not paying their football players? I am actually curious. Of course the military academies don’t (I assume!). Do the Ivy League teams? I wonder if we will soon come down to having a “pro” college football league and an “amateur” college football league!
In the book “My Father’s Paradise” Yona Sabar tells his father’s stories of village life in Iran in the early 20th century. There is the story of a local merchant who had the first phone ever seen in the village. He told people he didn’t use it because he was expecting important calls and he didn’t want to tie up the line. No one noticed that the village did not yet have any phone lines. One day the author’s father asked the merchant what his phone number was, and the man said “Seven.”Great book if you are looking for one.
Your story reminds me of a quote attributed to Isaac Stern. A woman came up to him after a concert and said “I’d give my life to play like you” and he replied “Lady, that’s what I did!”