[y66]

Bandito

by Eleanor Lerman

What gets you up in the morning?

For me it is the thought
that someday, I will be
as far away from here
as I can get

Watch me
rubbing out the lines behind me
I recommend it

I recommend
fooling everyone into thinking
that you have settled down
and then heading for the hills

The dog will bare his teeth
if instructed and meet up
with you later. It's good
you named him Bandito:
he'll watch your back

This, by the way, this is not a fantasy
It is page 69 (ha ha!) of the manual
I read when we were planning
the takeover

So it didn't happen—so what?
This is better
Wait until I tell you
what's on the next page

from The Sensual World Re-Emerges. © Sarabande Books, 2010. Reprinted with permission at the Writers' Almanac.

[blackshoe]

What gets me up in the morning is my cats.

[mtvesuvius]

Usually my younger brothers' screaming at each other. Or sometimes I just don't sleep.

[kenberg]

I am not sure what to make of it when an adult says

For me it is the thought
that someday, I will be
as far away from here
as I can get

If, say, this is a woman who is living with me I would ask her if she needs any help packing.

[jjbrr]

her groans when she comes to the sudden realization of what a big mistake she made the night before

[y66]

My favorite scene in The Bridges Of Madison County was at the end where Meryl Streep and her husband are in the truck and Clint Eastwood is a car or two away waiting for the light to change. The Streep character was really torn between staying and jumping out of the truck and her hand was shaking on the door handle. If kenberg had been in the driver's seat next to Streep, I guess that movie might have ended differently.

[kenberg]

I was just happy when The Bridges of Madison County ended. Didn't care for the book either, but my wife liked both a lot.

I found the poem evocative. But it's not clear that she needs a dog to bare his teeth to help her get away. Just Hit the Road, Jacqueline. She might find that no one minds at all. Worth a try, she could report back on the experiment.

[y66]

From Thelma and Louise:

Louise: Damn, Jimmy, did you take a pill that makes you say all the right stuff?

Jimmy: Honey? Ummm... Do you want me to come with you?

[kenberg]

Now Thelma and Louise, there's a movie I liked. My daughter Ruth tells me that by liking it I have passed some sort of test. But then I also liked Legally Blonde, which probably undoes all the chits I got for liking T and L.

[y66]

I'm getting up early tomorrow morning and heading over to Congressional for the U.S. Open. Will probably follow Els, Love, Furyk & Day in the morning and McIlroy & Mickelson in the afternoon. Els won here in '97. Would love to see a guy like Jason Day win it this year.

[kenberg]

Enjoy. When I was a kid my Boy Scout troop arranged for us to run scores from the greens back to the headquarters for the big annual game in St. Paul. Sam Snead, Tommy Bolt, etc. I've been to Congressional to watch but it's been a while.

[PassedOut]

 y66, on 2011-June-15, 19:29, said:

I'm getting up early tomorrow morning and heading over to Congressional for the U.S. Open. Will probably follow Els, Love, Furyk & Day in the morning and McIlroy & Mickelson in the afternoon. Els won here in '97. Would love to see a guy like Jason Day win it this year.

Pretty good choice to follow McIlroy today! Tough one for Phil though.

[y66]

That was fun. Nice breeze out there yesterday which was definitely an advantage for McIlroy. He goes off early today which is an advantage for all early starters after heavy rain last night softened the greens -- these are the conditions that helped Johnny Miller shoot the Open record low score of 63 in the 70s.

Sat next to a woman on the way over who could have been Thelma's younger sister. We passed a tennis center in Cabin John park named after Pauline Betz Addie, one of the greatest women tennis players ever, a former bridge opponent of kenberg's and the mother of poetry rock star Kim Addonizio of water cooler fame.

[phil_20686]

What gets me up in the morning?

My wife.

[shintaro]

my bladder ???

[ggwhiz]

 shintaro, on 2011-June-17, 07:34, said:

my bladder ???

You don't buy beer, you rent it.

[kenberg]

My wife noticed an item in the Washington Post this morning relating to the Open. Apparently they confiscated all mobile phones and such, gave the visitor a receipt, and put all the gadgetry in the same place. It became like an electronic chicken coop: beep, beep, jump, beep, jump, beep. Better there than on the edge of the green!