"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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> It was wonderful. I am pooped. I am home. Margaret is generous to a
> fault. I asked to keep the Magic Card she bought for me that was my bus
> ticket for a week. Oh, the places it's been.

I'm so glad, I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad!

Damn, it was lotsa fun hangin with you and Margaret Saturday night. Yep,
was lotsa fun.

>
> I told you about the cab thing at Zabar's? Today I arrived at LaGuardia
> with 2-1/2 hours to spare, went to my gate and discovered a flight to
> MSP departing in 20 minutes. They put me on it. It was one-third full.
> I had a row to myself. I managed to get the 50# bag in the overhead.
> It contained these things from Zabar's and Mme. Suran's: Halvah,
> Russian Coffee Cake, Black and White Cookies. Cream Herring. Two
> containers of Chopped Chicken Liver. Those olives. Trois Petits
> Cochons Dry Sausage. A six pack of Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray stuff. (What
> the hell was I thinking? Steve, I told Margaret you'd have your stuff
> tomorrow. ) A box of imported Belgian Chocolates (the kind you must
> refrigerate). (Nyaah, nyaah.) Chocolate rugelach. Saint Andre
> Triple Cream Cheese from Fairway (not as good as the stuff Mimi served
> me on Sunday). My sun-dried tomatoes from Zabar's. What did I forget,
> Margaret? Rob's going to love the sausage!

Yeah, but I got a bunch of the Sülze; and some Hungarian salami that I gave
to my new friends on the Metro North on saturday night....or mighta been
sunday morning; they were a lotta fun.

>
> My car driver offered me a free book on the Second Coming. It's not
> often that one gets offered religion from a hired driver, I think. I
> must have looked depraved.

Yeah, I was gonna say something but something else said 'you'd better not'.

>
> I left some clothes to be mailed; there was no room in my two bags, one
> of which was a big sucker that Margaret produced. The schmatteh undies
> were schmattehed. "Hmm, I wonder what's in this bag. . . . Eeeew!
> Schmatteh!"

Pfui! Du bist ja der Struwelpeter! Miao Mioo!!

>
> It took us about twice as long to get home tonight (weather was crappy)
> from the airport. Had I taken my scheduled flight, I'd still be on the
> road. Rob is sick. I made him some Thai packaged Hot Sour Soup (and
> threw in a few extra cruhed chili seeds) and sent him to bed.
>
> Margaret rocks. She drinks a lot, but that's part of her charm. "-)
> Margaret, I drank one TaB and two cans of Bloody Mary Mix on the plane.
> The rugelach were in my bag in the overhead three rows up. Couldn't get
> to them. Just as well.
>

Sounds like a nice flight home; I'm glad, I'm glad I'm glad. I had so much
fun seeing you I can't describe it. So I won't.

> "Goodnight, Gracie." I'm going to look at my digital pictures now.
> Haven't done that yet.
>


Jack Amigo