Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

 Do you ever feel like you don't fit in?
-as heard watching the
2009 film, ASTRO BOY

There's a movie directed by Australian Baz Lurhmann called STRICTLY BALLROOM that was released in the USA back in February 1993.  I just loved the film.  It's one of my favorites.  It has comedy, drama and romance.

I heard Doris Day sing a song while watching that film.  It's called 'Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps'.   Perhaps you know it.   If not, listen NOW as you watch clips of Doris and Rock Hudson:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_fcG9GXeRw


Twenty-five years ago today

November 2, 1985
Saturday

I rolled over in my bed to answer the phone at 8:30AM.  It was Stephanie Redding who had no apparent reason for calling.  She just wanted to gab.  After the brief call I went to mom’s house for some orange juice.

I telephoned Sue Miller to verify our arrangements for breakfast and the Bay Meadows Race Track escape.   I picked Sue up at her place and we ate at the ‘Ole’s Waffle Shop’.  I saw a Laguna Beach T-Shirt of an Adonis at the shop next door.   It was most impressive.   I must’ve been relatively impressive on this morning myself as a few ‘Ole’s Waffle Shop’ customers were giving me double-takes. Ha-ha.

 
"The roads to friendship are as strange as those to love."
-as heard while watching
the 2007 French Film
"Shall We Kiss?"

After the Ole’s Waffle breakfast I drove over the San Mateo Bridge and we had fun at the horse races.   We didn’t stick around with the Pac Bell employees group for very long.   Sue and I went our separate ways, finding our way near the finish line to watch the horses win, place and show.   It was exciting.   Sue actually won a few bucks.   I ended up losing sixteen dollars (but that’s okay…Hell).

By 6PM I was home but mom and dad weren’t around. I telephoned Leonard.
Leonard announced, “I have dinner plans tonight.  Perhaps we could go to Berkeley tomorrow and hang out.”
I like when he uses the word ‘perhaps’.
Agreeable as I was, I said, “Okay!”

As it turned out, Leonard had actually called me earlier.  He’d left a message with my mom.   I found out about it when my mom and dad returned from their dinner outing (and a visit to Tony and Helen’s house).   I went over to mom and dad’s house and watched a TV-movie called “Badge of the Assassin” with them.   It was starring James Wood and Pam Grier and was about three black revolutionaries who gun down two New York City police officers.  The subsequent investigation puts a white Assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.  It was just 'okay'.  After the movie I went home and fell fast asleep.