Chloe and Kimmee had convinced their mother to let them go to the party after the wedding rehearsal, but maybe they had more of those fruity drinks with umbrellas than they should have. Now they were almost an hour after their mother’s fairly generous curfew. “Straighten up, girl,” said Kimmee to Chloe, “or Mom will never let us out till we’re 50 or get married ourselves . . .
When the world learned that Gloria’s boss, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, had had her cell phone bugged by NSA, Gloria suspected that she had been bugged as well. She hoped the techno-geeks could discover and remove the bugs . . . . . David, Sf.G.
Geena, concerned about the short pollinating season and wanting the best offspring for the next generation, decided to try connecting with the new Horticultural Speed Dating group that was recently formed in her neighborhood. Although not sure just how things worked, she had seen a petunia across the room that was a real hunk and hoped she could get the 7 minutes allotted per speed date to have a chance to chat him up. . . . . . David, Sf.G.
When Jack, from Redhook, Brooklyn, told his buddies–Jim from Far Rockaway and Herbie from Poughkeepsie–he was moving to Arizona, they thought him nuts–what could Arizona have that New York didn’t? To demonstrate his sanity, Jack flew them all to Arizona. While checking out a flea market, Jack bought what were labeled “Magic Beans,” and again his buddies gave snorts of derision. But when they got out of their hotel rooms the next morning and saw where Jack had planted one of the beans, they were somewhat less critical.. . . . . David, Sf.G.
Denise hated nicknames, especially hers. Her name wasn’t Red; why couldn’t her friends just call her Denise? What were they going to call her when fall came and she lost her petals–Brown?. . . . . . David, Sf.G.
Huey and Dwayne had to admit it, their buddy Louis (center) was one heck of a trumpet player, Jazz, blues, and classical; in fact he was the one that had gotten them the summer gig in the trumpet section with the Canadian Brass doing a traveling J. S. Bach recital featuring Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. But they still weren’t going to call him Satchmo when the chicks were around.. . . . David, Sf.G.
