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I'm losing my patience. Partially because of the rain. "A warm and sunny June morning," according to Willard Scott, NBC's leading meteorologist who never wished ME a happy birthday on my half-centennial! A quick glance at the smarter two-legged, featherless animals; dressed to the hilt with bright colored raincoats and galoshes tells me he could be wrong. "Greatest, however, is water." That's an old expression from the Greek Poet, Pindar; sometime before the B.C.'s became A.D.'s I'm going to give you a better one. "Turn off the tap, sweetheart, we're all full up!" Me, 1983. I'm soggy from the hat down. My overcoat is retaining more water than a pregnant diabetic and I’m beginning to leak through to my dry-clean only's.
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It's the reason I've been earning my pension at his gyro cart for the past six days. Vasily takes his time; he smiles, he gets to know you, he shakes your hand and at the end of your transaction, you're walking away with the best spanakopita outside of the motherland. His daughter Melissa is pretty easy on the eyes too and just old enough where I don't feel like a creep for it. The downside is that he's moving as old as he looks and baby if he gets any older, he's going to loop back to zero like that goofy Pac-man game I watched the kids play at my niece, Alexandria's last Christmas. I'd settle for some computerized dots right now, smothered in tzatziki and feta …show more content…
The Variety luncheonette weathered mob shakedowns, departmental fines, chronic dysentery, lawsuits and even managed to stay open after that odd finger in the sandwich incident back in '81. Most of us cops went along just for the sake of convenience and the bravery citations you earned from the experience. It became part of the training routine to haze all of our new recruits with the 'meatloaf special.' Some of them handed in their badges right at the counter. In the end after two days, eleven hours and nineteen minutes, the greasiest spoon turned out to be it's own worst adversary. "You cops really dug that place huh? It's no wonder we got any of you flatfoots left. Just looking at it gave me heartburn. Thank God I never ate there. Of course, we got us a decent cook back at the engine house. Chili, roasts, stews, Mike does it all!" Gus pats himself in the doughy middle that was once hard as bricks (if my sister-in-law was to be believed) as if I need a visual reminder of where the food goes. I just might if this line gets any longer. " That's what you need Theo a good cook or a