MY SUN DAY NEWS
May 19, 2011
These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter. Today’s clues are as follows.
Judy and I were lucky to be able to escape the Blizzard of ’11 by spending January and February in the place we call Disneyland for Geezers, The Villages, Florida. If you’ve never been there, you don’t know what you are missing. I don’t want to turn this into a commercial, but suffice it to say there are over 70,000 full- and part-time residents of this senior community. Here’s a few of the Geezer Moments that occurred there this year.
These are cryptograms consisting of quotations by famous people, past or present. Each letter in the puzzle stands for another letter.
Starting off this week’s column is a great one from our good friend and neighbor, Emma Burns, who relates this embarrassing experience.
Does this happen to you, too? I often wake up in the middle of the night and then have difficulty getting back to sleep because my brain decides this is a good time to solve the world’s problems, or least some of my own. In fact, I am writing this at about 4:30 a.m. Once my thoughts started spinning wildly, I had no choice but to get up and write.
Kicking off 2011 with her “moment” is our neighbor Lorraine McGuire with what was her one and only “geezer moment” of 2010. Right, Lorraine?
My old drum corps and tennis buddy, Mike McGuigan of Neighborhood 18 writes: “I just had one of those “Geezer Moments” you write about.”
Softball buddy Jimmy Hayes starts this week’s column with this “moment”: My wife and I are watching the Late Show last week, and I find a piece of paper with several names on it. I don’t recognize any of them. I ask her who these people are. She says, “They are people that I voted for.” I said, “Oh, you mean obscure judges on the ballot?” She says, “Oh, no, they are people on “Dancing with the Stars.”
In this week’s column, I am departing from my usual format and instead am telling a true story, which, in a way, still is a “geezer moment” of sorts.
Many of our friends who are not Sun City residents continue to send their “moments” to me. Here’s one from former neighbors now living in Las Vegas, so this one gets the award for coming the farthest.
I’m starting today’s column with one from my travel senior softball days, when we would hold fundraisers to pay for our tournament entry fees.
Let’s start this week’s column off with this anonymous one about an 83-year-old woman who was stopped for speeding. When asked by the patrol officer, “Did you know you were speeding?” she talked herself out of a ticket by stating: “Yes, Officer … I was trying to get there before I forgot where I was going!” Makes perfect sense to me.
To open this week’s column, here’s one from our good friend and neighbor, Emma Burns. Emma writes:
I’ll start off this week’s column with one from our house. We own two vehicles, a minivan and a small, sporty vehicle. When parking them in our garage, the minivan goes only on one side because the other side has a movable storage platform that fits perfectly in the space above the small car.
Hey, fellow geezers, your emails and notes sent to me for this column get funnier each week. Here’s this week’s first gem, sent by good friends Linda and Steve.
Virtually all of us Sun City folk have at least one thing in common. I call them “Geezer Moments.” You know what I mean, those sometimes hilarious things we do throughout the course of a day.
