Thursday Tidbits

Posted on October 31, 2013 under Thursday Tidbits with one comment

“Heat Wave” was a smashing success and the good news is that I survived unscathed. I received a lot of feedback on my website, on Facebook and out on the streets. Several women told me about some of their “episodes” in regards to their spouses. What a hoot.

I have three new stories more or less ready to go. One has a sports theme ( A Fall to Remember ); one is political satire – Question:  how do you get a skunk out of a window well? Answer: offer him a Senate appointment. Politicians and skunks all neatly wrapped up into a lovely piece called ” Something Smells.” The last story has to do with our love affair with cars, especially cars that reduce our carbon footprint. I was chatting with a friend who was regaling me with a story about her purchase of a hybrid vehicle. This brought back vivid memories ( notice I didn’t say fond memories ) about the first time a drove a hybrid. It was a rental and if you don’t know anything about hybrids, just getting them to start can be problematic. Coming soon… ” Hybrid Hysterics.”

And Facebook continues to deliver juicy story ideas along with a thousand recipes. One person was lamenting ” student discount days” at the grocery store, equating it with Saturday night at the pub.

Earlier today I was visiting a bank in Port Hawkesbury where they don’t know me and they offered me the senior’s chair at the counter. THANK GOD. I’ve arrived. The only thing that would have made it better was if it was cheque day. I missed it by one day. I was waited on by a lovely lady and it was only near the end of the interview did I confess to being a writer of humor stories. She seemed terribly concerned about whether I would “out” her. Luckily, Mary didn’t give me her last name! When she passed me a document to be signed, it got mixed up with the invoice from the company that shreds documents. What I received was a “certificate of destruction.” How can I not write about this.

Speaking of Port Hawkesbury, I will be doing a book launch there on Thursday, December 12th. at 7:00 p.m. in the Shannon Studio at the Civic Centre.

Exactly one year ago, I wrote a story about a trip I made to Walmart the day after Halloween. It is only fitting that I release it on Friday…. the day after Halloween. It is a theme that you’re probably tired of but it’s about me, shopping, lineups and checkouts. It’s called ‘ “Of Ghosts, Goblins and Checkout Lines”

And then it’s off for a little R@R.

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