Great Lines and Not For a Springsteen Concert

 

Great Lines – And Not for a Springsteen Concert

Here’s another comment from my older son (the same one who let us know “cops is fuzz”). Back when giving the little guys shampoos, I’d lay them on their backs on the kitchen counter with their heads (supported, of course) dropping down into the sink. No stinging shampoo in their eyes! My mother-in-law was visiting us from Milwaukee and needed a shampoo. Polly was of the generation of women who had their hair done once a week in a salon. Not knowing where to send her, I offered to shampoo and style her hair. John, hearing this conversation commented, “It’s going to be hard getting her on the counter!”

“Try a Little Tenderness” is rather maudlin song from 1932, the height of the Great Depression. “She may be weary, wearing the same shabby dress, so when she’s weary, try a little tenderness”. My ex-husband’s version was, “go and buy another dress”. He was funny yes, emotionally supportive – not so much.

Years later at a party, my therapist (yes, I saw a therapist, details not forthcoming) introduced me to her new beau. George was charming and when I asked what he did, he told me he had a couple of furniture stores. I, loving home décor, gushed, how neat! He told me, not really, his stuff was one step up from Ikea, sort of throwaway furniture. I commented, I think maybe a little haughtily, “I’m still sleeping on my original Beauty Rest mattress.” To which he responded, “Seems as if it didn’t get much action!”

Great line – quick and funny and also showing the perception that it wouldn’t offend me. My therapist ended up happily married to George for over 30 years.

A good man is hard to find. Actually a good handyman is hard to find. My handyman is good and reliable. He’s also innovative and smart. He had just solved an issue when I told him that I had a problem with my workers being smarter than I was. His response, “Well I guess you hired the wrong guy!” That’s when I knew that I’d hired the right guy.

Saving the best for last. Dorothy Parker and Clare Booth Luce were both writers in the thirties and forties. Writing styles and life styles were very different. Dorothy walked on the wild side fueled by gin and Clare was married to Henry Luce an extremely successful publisher of Time, Life and more. Clare later became the ambassador to Italy. Dorothy detested Clare and when she was told that Clare’s strong suit was that she was always kind to her inferiors, Dorothy quipped, “Where does she find them?”

Oh, to write like Dorothy Parker! Or to at least think like her!

Wow! The Valkyries took it all!

And the Warriors won 5 in a row!

My home town team, the Brewers won the series!