It's OK to cry..........

I often cry while watching movies, nothing wrong with that. I'm emotional, caring, and sympathetic, but in real life, it takes a lot to make me cry. The last time I was brought to tears was in 1984. I don't remember exactly why? It may have been the separation and eventual divorce from the bad spouse. Or, it may have been the Detroit Tigers World Series victory. I'm not sure which but if I had to bet I'd put my money on the Tigers.

Speaking of the Tigers, "For Love Of The Game" , a 1999 movie starring Kevin Costner is on right now. It's background noise today. I watched it for the first time on Monday. It's either a baseball story about an aging pitcher and his love for a woman. Or a love story about a woman and a man who happens to be a baseball player. You would need to watch it and decide for yourself.

Which ever way the movie is interpreted I shed tears at the proper moments. Baseball story, I started to leak at the end of the game. Love story, I cried at the "do they or don't they" get together climax. I suppose manly men or real men don't cry, but I don't care. I got emotional watching the last Harry Potter film. I cried near the end of "The Lord Of The Rings" when the Hobbits were honored. "Casablanca" and "It Could Happen To You".....get out the hankie. Some people can't sit through a movie without popcorn, I need Kleenex.

Yesterday was my cousin Donna's fifty eighth birthday, wow. Of all the Meltzer cousins only Rick is younger. I'm almost five years older than Donna. I have a very vivid memory of her as a baby, on her changing table, peeing. I must have been six or seven when Donna was in diapers, time flies. Happy Birthday to my dear cousin.

We have talked about customer service and how it is an oxymoron these days. I was shocked when the Safeway pharmacy manager called me last week. He wanted to know when I would be filling my prescription next. He said he wanted to be sure and have the quantity I needed. I appreciated the call and thanked him for it. Friday I went in to pick up my order and they were short. He told me they would order the pills. I said I would be back Monday. I'm so glad he called, what a difference it made. Rather than the usual trip to the store, I made two.

A South Carolina woman told deputies that the iPad she bought from two men in a McDonald's parking lot turned out to be a block of wood painted black with an Apple logo.

The 22-year-old woman told authorities the men first told her they were selling the iPads they bought in bulk for $300, but agreed to sell her one for $180 when she said that was all the money she had.

Authorities say the men gave her a closed FedEx box, and she didn't discover she had bought a block of wood until she got home. Deputies are investigating the swindle.

What they should be investigating is how she could be that stupid.

She said, "It smells like apple pie."
He heard, It smells like knuckle sky.

She said, "Olive can"
He heard, all of it can

She said, "I'm going to have a little cereal."
He heard, I'm going to watch the World Series.

It is a great time for sports fans. The baseball playoffs start in ten days or so. Football season has begun. College football is almost at full swing and somewhere people are playing tennis and golf. Oh, and NASCAR, lots of people like NASCAR. All of this is happening and the new television season is beginning. Of the few shows we watch, a couple start tonight. All of this and right here in our family room we have the best seats in town.