But before we get to that, tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. ET and again at 12:45 ET we are having our first ever Italian Lesson Knitting Group via Zoom for paid subscribers to Backstory Serial. We can’t wait! Screenshots to come.
It may have been awhile or it may have been last night, but most of us have been on a first date or two. Some (perhaps most) we’d rather forget, but others we never will. What is the most fun—or unintentionally funniest—first date you’ve ever been on? And were cobblestones or cows involved?
53 yrs ago, English class, asking someone to open a window and just about the whole class chanted ‘Bobby will open it for you’! FF a cpl weeks, Dad and I watching Around the World in 80 Days, me watching headlights pass about every 10 minutes, then a knock at the door, Dad answered, shut the door and said do you know a Bob? He asked me to go eat pizza, Dad said sure!!!(shocking, my Dad was retired military, not how you ask my daughter out!) when we went to pay he was three cents short. I didn’t take time to grab my purse, no change under the car seats-we left and he returned the next day to pay the 3cents!
Here we sit, 2 kids, 4 grandkids later and I thank my Dad everyday for saying ‘Sure, but next time, come during the day and ask her properly’.
We aim to be married as long as Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, God willing...just 22 more yrs to go.
When I was in college I went to dinner with a man from Zimbabwe and was stunned when every white head turned to stare at the white girl walking in with a black man. That’s the only thing that I remember from that dinner.