dearlenbaugh wrote:
Jeeze, I almost got "Myrna-Loyed" again!




Honest to gosh, I wasn't trying to one-up you. (If I had been, I would have told my Wyatt-Earp's-cane story. Heh.)


Actually, I now see my story was less pertinent that I had originally believed. Your assessment of the cane-giving and the old man's motives are probably spot-on. It translated better in your last post, and I probably wasn't paying close enough attention to your initial telling of the story. As you evaluate, the episode falls more properly under the Department of One of Those Screwy Things That Happen in Life, than it does under "Heartwarming Moments".


It's still a good story, though.