Posted by Bob Haworth I've been pretty busy since the first of Dec. doing a lot of holiday parties. Not much time to sit at the computer, but for me at least, getting out and doing what I love to do is more important. I'll relate a couple of funny stories that happened to me this past week. Two of the parties I played for were at retirement homes. After my show at one of these a lady came up to me and introduced herself as Thelma. She said she'd like to introduce me to her son, who had recently had a stroke. Thelma told me, "My son's 81 and I'm 101. We both live here." My jaw dropped! At another very plush retirement home where I've played before, a couple sat in the front row and really enjoyed the music. I stopped for a short intermission and took the opportunity to chat with them. They told me that they'd known each other since they were five years old. I congratulated them on staying together for so long, to which they replied, "Oh, no - we didn't get married until we were 80." Truth is stranger than fiction!
on December 15, 2006, 1:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Clean up the board"
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Apologies for not checking in for the last couple days and noticing the intrusion! How these postings showed up here I have no idea, but I've deleted them now and I'm sorry for any offense they may have caused. Believe me, this is not the type of thing I condone and I'll have my Webmaster check into blocking this stuff in the future.
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