Sunday, November 22, 2009
I slid over and tried to cheer her up. It was the gentlemanly thing to do. It took me only a few minutes to get a half smile out of her.
That’s when I slipped up. Acting too quickly, I tried an approach I’d been thinking about for a few years, and this was the first opportunity I’d had to use it. I said, “Once you go geezer, you’ll never go back.”
She held her palm up to my face and attempted a smile through her red-rimmed eyes.
