Wait a minute. I just thought of something. What about the new HO way in the
back on Industrial. Is that going to be closed also?
Remembering back. Some of my best conversations happened at the HO snack
bar. You know how you'd sit at the long narrow double sided raised up tables and
face the people opposite you and you either made fun of or gave dirty looks
to the diners who insisted on their foot long hot dog being sliced in two and
put on a paper plate? I mean there was something communal about your hot dog
coming into bare contact with the table and oozing out the fixings from the
too short paper wrapper. Facing the other side diners so close was conducive
to talking freely to total strangers. One evening I spoke to a couple who
where musicologists and they told me why JS Bach had twenty children....
Composers of that era had a lot of kids to use as music scribes. But I was one up
on the couple. I informed them that only nine of Bach's kids lived longer than
he did. It was a bad time for diseases and HMO's. In Bach's early work life
he played a lot of funerals. He remarked in a letter one year that times were
tough because fewer people were dying.
I also remember the time I went to the coffee shop/buffet to meet a friend
who was staying at the HO from St Louis. I didn't really know much about what
he looked like or his last name. So I went up to guys in his age bracket and
asked if they were his screen name, which was a funny combination of letters
something like AAASRAA. "Are you AAASRAA? I went up to about 10 guys with
that question. Then I went over to the snack bar and asked some more guys. I
found out later I was one week early for the scheduled meeting.
I'll come to the Ho closing only if they switch the free ice cream and
cookies thing from 2pm to 7pm and only if the Elvis Impersonator is on stage
singing
JT, formerly JT_Hughes_iii
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