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| 1:Designed by Gilda Kuhlman |
2. Gilda spends at least five hours a week
on the phone with fellow book designer,
Mrs. Carpeo
3. Occasionally, Paul is rude enough
to demand the phone
especially since
he has become addicted to
4. Invariably, discussion
about Spelling Bee
alludes to Scrabble
which my father
introduced me to
when I was
eleven years old.
So I told Gilda
the following story:
5. After his son played
a high-scoring word,
my father would intensely look
across the board and call
his bespectacled offspring
a "genius."
In truth, he was reading
my rack of letters
off the reflection
of my glasses.
He always won the game
even after I caught on
to the chicanery
of my eighth-grade
drop-out Daddy
6. Gilda said
—and I am quoting verbatim—
That's the funniest story
I ever heard.
Within seconds,
I handed the phone
back to Mrs. CarPeo
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How true is this story?
ReplyDelete99.99% true
DeleteI did not always let my Father win
and, despite implications, I did not tell
Gilda my Father was an eighth grade drop-out
Why didn't you provide a hyperlink
ReplyDeletefor the other book designer, Mrs. CarPeo?
If I did so, my better half
Deletewould not have allowed for this page
to be published
My name is Melanie and I found this page because I am an ardent follower
ReplyDeleteof the concept/game, "Six Degrees of Separation."
I am surprised you didn't provide a link to it.
Hello, Melanie
DeleteThere is no such hyperlink here because Mrs. CarPeo
(also known as my smarter half) has proven
that "Three Degrees of Separation"
is more often the case and
could have been used here
but doing so would have
involved too much ego
or cheap humor