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Who's Paying? I Am! (part two)

My father walks every day-- EVERY  day--rain or shine.  Part of me wishes he'd stay home, that way we can keep an eye on him, but another part of me realizes that when he's not here I don't have to watch baseball on TV. Plus, i t would also give me a chance to sneak away and do something special with one of my grandkids.  Like in January, for example, I took my granddaughter to see a special showing of The Wizard of Oz . Interestingly enough, there were mostly adults in the audience. Very few kids. A group of ladies sat next to us. They came in late, then left to go get food. They couldn’t have done that BEFORE they entered the theater? I said nothing, even though I wanted to. My granddaughter was enjoying the experience, plus this is a different time we live in. The lady who sat right next to us then answered a few text messages on her phone. It was distracting. To me, at least. Again, my granddaughter was transfixed by what was on the screen. I held my mud and said noth...

Funny Shades of Grey--chapter eighteen

  Chapter Eighteen    Talk about being sexist.   I completely thought Dr. Bombay was a man, what with having read Fifty Shades of Grey Hair and all, but as it turns out she's a woman, and not in that Bruce Jenner kind of way.   "Do you mind if my son joins us?" she asks before she starts her examination of me.   "Uh... is he a doctor, too?" I try to clarify.   "No, he just likes to watch."   Looking at him, I see he's only ten years old. Waaay too young to be a doctor, unless he went to medical school in a foreign country, like Detroit.   "When I grow up," the young boy pipes up, "I wanna be Mr. Grey's personal physician!"   Aw, how sweet.   "Because you like helping people?" I ask him.   "Because I like money," he says.   Well, what can I say about my examination?   The worst part was when she had me bend over so she could check my prostate, and then leaned over to nibble on my earl...