Overheard at breakfast in a resort town not far away:
Third time’s a charm
Posted on August 25, 2012
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uphilldowndale
August 25, 2012
LOL …Maybe he needs to take a little more time off!!
Gerry
August 25, 2012
Everyone needs to take a little more time off but it’s summer and we must make hay. It’s exhausting.
wendiwoot
August 25, 2012
NIce 🙂
Gerry
August 25, 2012
Actually, it was – it struck me as a rueful acknowledgment that Mistakes Have Been Made but that miraculously enough Do-Overs may be possible, and that a person just might be able to do it right this time..
Dawn
August 25, 2012
Wouldn’t blame her if she’s a runaway bride either. Run honey run!
Gerry
August 25, 2012
I do not know the bride or the groom, but I have a little idea that they might just make a fine marriage. I’m pretty sure she knows what she’s getting into, which is more than most of us can say about the odd Thursday afternoon. And I sensed that he’s been thinking deep thoughts. Or perhaps I am an incurable romantic.
Martha
August 25, 2012
Boy, that’s local color! A few years ago he would have had a cigarette stub stuck to his lower lip while saying that.
Gerry
August 25, 2012
Oh no! I have failed to convey the essential hopefulness–not to mention the high quality of the breakfast, which I enjoyed very much. The chef is an artist of short order cookery.
shoreacres
August 25, 2012
Love the phrasing – “I don’t think I can blame her”. That’s ok – hope springs eternal. I hope it works this time!
Gerry
August 25, 2012
I am deeply relieved to have someone share my hopefulness.
Martha J
August 25, 2012
I loved the story and it gives my poor sentimental heart a charge to think that this time the pieces may just fall into the right places!
Gerry
August 25, 2012
Oh I hope so. I have friends who found True Love on her second marriage and his third. There are a lot of reasons marriages come apart, and generally plenty of mistakes to go around. Sometimes, against all odds, even the most hard-headed of us manage to learn something.
P.j. grath
August 26, 2012
Third time worked for me. Of course, I married my second husband a second time.
Gerry
August 26, 2012
I did not know that. Now there’s an interesting tale for my next visit to Over There.
dmarks
August 26, 2012
whiplash/
Gerry
August 26, 2012
Took me a minute . . . the Sleestaks left me completely befuddled today. In a good way. Pun piled on pun, cultural references I barely grasp . . . it was a wild ride. In a good way.
dmarks
August 27, 2012
Well, glad you liked it in the end! The facts about Sleestak are established in just a few episodes of “Land of the Lost”, and I will refer to these frequently. There are really not many. They hiss all the time, they hate fire, they are very tall, in the context of the show they were named Sleestak as an insult to a Revolutionary War soldier who was named Sleestak, one of them was played by Detroit Pistons great Bill Laimbeer, the only revealed elements of their diet are limited to moth and pork.
Really obscure, though. If you ever want to wade into Land of the Lost, you might try searching for the two parts of the best episode on Youtube. Just go there and look for
LAND OF THE LOST – SID MARTY KROFFT the STRANGER
Otherwise, the only pop cultural thing I would expect everyone to know is the Big Band era name of Spike Jones. But perhaps he is too obscure now also.
anyway, expect more whiplash!
Gerry
August 27, 2012
The Spike Jones reference is the only one I recognized. That is because I am an old bat. All I know about Sleestak I’ve picked up from your posts. At the present rate, I will be a much older bat before I have grasped the subtleties of Sleestak culture.
I find that I quite enjoy whiplash. In moderation of course. Off to hunt up the videos.
dmarks
August 26, 2012
that was supposed to be a question mark.
Sybil
August 26, 2012
I think he’s learned something and is ready to work at the third time … and so it will be a charm.
Gerry
August 26, 2012
Another incurable romantic heard from. And there is this: he’s a good cook.