Friday, February 3, 2012
There’s been no Bingo since last Friday, but I have had some interesting communication, nonetheless, from the Soldiers Home this week.
Ray McDade called Tuesday, while I was at work, to tell me he’d learned the official entrée choices for next week’s Valentines dinner. “I’m afraid they’re not that exciting,” Ray said in his message. “Chicken-fried steak and two kinds of fettuccine: chicken or shrimp.”
I left Ray a message of my own and picked the chicken fettuccini. Or so I thought.
Ray called again Thursday, wondering what I wanted—and this time, pork roast had appeared as an option. This time I called back and sent an email—and stuck with the fettuccini. But then he called again today and said they needed to know asap. Luckily, I reached him in person, and he was very sweet about our crossed lines. He said I might have to help him comb his hair and tie his tie, which made me smile.
Also today, I got my weekly Soldiers Home newsletter in the mail—and realized the only Home Bingos for the whole month of February are on Friday afternoons, at 2. So apparently the midday Bingo experiment was a success—except that I can’t do Bingos on Friday afternoons at 2, which I had explained after that first trial run. And beyond that, there are no Wednesday-night Home Bingos, or Saturday afternoon ones.
Good thing I’m not paranoid, or I might think I’m being squeezed out. And good thing I have a nice dinner with a good friend to look forward to—and maybe even chicken fettuccini.
There’s been no Bingo since last Friday, but I have had some interesting communication, nonetheless, from the Soldiers Home this week.
Ray McDade called Tuesday, while I was at work, to tell me he’d learned the official entrée choices for next week’s Valentines dinner. “I’m afraid they’re not that exciting,” Ray said in his message. “Chicken-fried steak and two kinds of fettuccine: chicken or shrimp.”
I left Ray a message of my own and picked the chicken fettuccini. Or so I thought.
Ray called again Thursday, wondering what I wanted—and this time, pork roast had appeared as an option. This time I called back and sent an email—and stuck with the fettuccini. But then he called again today and said they needed to know asap. Luckily, I reached him in person, and he was very sweet about our crossed lines. He said I might have to help him comb his hair and tie his tie, which made me smile.
Also today, I got my weekly Soldiers Home newsletter in the mail—and realized the only Home Bingos for the whole month of February are on Friday afternoons, at 2. So apparently the midday Bingo experiment was a success—except that I can’t do Bingos on Friday afternoons at 2, which I had explained after that first trial run. And beyond that, there are no Wednesday-night Home Bingos, or Saturday afternoon ones.
Good thing I’m not paranoid, or I might think I’m being squeezed out. And good thing I have a nice dinner with a good friend to look forward to—and maybe even chicken fettuccini.
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