First report from Dougie and Alison at the Cape:
Pretty good crowd here. A couple of cute college-age girls in front of us in the check-in line couldn't wait for the party to begin and ordered beer delivered from the lobby bar while they were waiting. And who says these kids today have no initiative?
Dougie was a victim of some good ol' fashioned flim-flammery:
On our walk we had the bite put on us in a new way. An American (of course) comes racing across the street at us, and in an out-of-breath voice insists that he needs 200 pesos to get his car out of impound, but he only has 180. He shows us a set of keys and a handful of small bills and change. He was sunburned, of indeterminate age (probably because he clearly wasn't wearing his dentures -which gave him that Walter Brennan look), somewhere bewteen 55 and 75. Anyway, it was a good act and 20 pesos is about $1.60, so I passed him a couple of Washingtons and off he went -- in the opposite direction from where he had earlier indicated his car was jailed. He was, however, headed in the direction of a sports book that I am acqainted with, and I had the feeling he was less intereted in his car than he was in the spread on the Monday night football game. In any event, it was a story and an act worth paying for and, as Augustus McRea once said, but in a slightly different context, 'If a man won't cheat for a poke, he doesn't want one bad enough'."
Sounds like tough duty in Cabo...
In other news, tomorrow is Turkey Day. I will be making side dishes - the classic green bean casserole, sweet potato and carrot puree, an auxiliary ham (auxiliary to sister's turkey), and chocolate peanut butter pie. Cousin Sandra is making a spinach salad and punkin' pie. Linda has got Turkey, mashed taters, gravy, stuffin', and cranberries. Good and good for you. Yum.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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