Diner Happenings the week of March 25, 2007

Sapphy says, Pull up a stool at the counter and listen to all the stuff that went on this week!  We have the pulse on of the town coursing thru my establishment ---

Poor Marlene - went bowling at the Superfine Bowl and Arcade last Friday night and the poor thing met up with a mishap.  "Well, I was doin' pretty good an' all - when I picked up my ball and went to take a swing down the alley and I dropped the dang thing on my right foot!"  My husband, Art, couldn't stop laughing at me.    He wasn't laughing later -- when I put glue on the toilet seat at 2am ----

Clare Vance -- the former Culture Maven of the little British Hampshire village of Nether Wallop - is trying to bring a little culture to my diner --- she thinks that we need an overhaul of the jukebox choices ---  Clare flipped through the usual Elvis, Patsy Cline, Brittany Spears, Rap, and Uncle Cracker fare -- but was totally upset and rather dismayed to find not a single selection from any of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.   "You'd think there would be at least ONE song from Mikado, "she said."

Diner regular Patty Littlejim has finally decided to confess to other regulars that she has been having conversations with aliens.   I told her that we have people from foreign lands all over this country and that I talked to them all the time -- she said "NO -- not THOSE kind -- REAL aliens." Well, I told her they were REAL Aliens - they have their green cards -- and she said  "Outer Space aliens, I mean."   Well - you can imagine the reaction she got to that --- Patty claims that they visit her every Saturday night like clockwork ---- Phil Smith over at the local liquor store says he is sure something visits her every Saturday but its not aliens." Patty's husband Frank -seen here upon his return from the mens' room said, "If they want her to go live with them on Pluto, I will not stand in their way."

Candid photo of the week:  Chet tells Marlene why his wife Etta calls him Cigar Man.