Connie

My good friend, Connie, came through town and arrived at almost lunch time. Connie owns her own concierge business and has recently started marketing gel candles. We decided to enjoy the chopped steak and baked potato in the dining room here. Last to arrive, we looked around for a table with two seats available.

I had decided before hand that, if possible, we would sit with Miz "I-Am-Better-Than-All-of-You". Thought it would be fun to put a kink in her Yankee genes/jeans. Unfortunately, that table was too full.

We breezed on down to the table next to the throne of power, the manager's table. It was quite fun to watch all of the folks twist, turn, and peer around to see who was the young (comparatively) middle-aged Fox I had brought in. Even the co-managers came by to say, "Hello". Connie honored me with her very own temporary personal summer. When we left 75.5 pairs of eyeballs escorted us.

PS: Connie is a beautiful African-American

AsA

TOO POOR TO VOTE REPUBLICAN

================================================================================From: "Alicia"

Ooooohhhh, I can feel the daggers now! but isn't it wonderful to have a kaleidoscope of friends? It’s so funny to watch narrow-minded southerners!

My daughter has "rainbow" friends at her boarding school -- girls and guys of all sorts of hues hang out together. Whenever I visit, I never know who or what colors are going to dinner or other events with us . . . and that's what they like most about me . . . I see them as just young people with common interests and goals. I've gotten some very strange looks at times, I'll have to admit, but we take it all in good humor . . . especially when the waiters nearly pass out when I'm called mom by a Hispanic, a black and a white child. In addition, to really get under their skin, we'll order the sampler appetizer . . . that always gets the wait staff!

People can be peculiar, but I always turn it around and make it their problem. It makes it all worthwhile when the kids say, "you go, mom!"

You know it seems so odd for you to be in a retirement home . . . you are so energetic and "full of it" . . . I guess that's the very last place I ever thought of you being. I'm glad you're continuing your active lifestyle and not slowing down altogether. Keep on gittin' it!