October Surprise ... Essay for October 2022
I guess you can just go ahead and haul me to the Old Folks Home … Yesterday I used the following phrases: ‘ponder’, ‘vim and vigor’, ‘smithereens’, ‘skedaddle’, ‘willy nilly’ and ‘the life of Riley’. Old phrases sort of tell our age … something to ponder … I wonder if they still make it… never sure who ‘they’ are, but I seem to rely on what ‘they’ say … wonder if they still make little shrimp cocktails? Years ago, whenever we had a fancy family dinner … there were these little jars of shrimp cocktail … which was probably 95% ketchup … the shrimp were tiny … and suspiciously looked like bait in a bait shop I saw once. The little jars became glass glasses … juice glasses (instead of plastic glasses) … but after having a lot of fancy family dinners, we were flooded with juice glass glasses … we had special little forks which I always called ‘shrimp cocktail forks’ … later I learned that they could be called ‘fish forks’ which is too hard to say … Oneida Michelangelo patterned fish for