March 18th was my Dad’s birthday. He’s been gone three years now. I still miss him. What a character he was! Here’s one of my favorite stories.
Dad tried that computer dating thing. This was a couple years after my mom passed. He joined this Catholic dating site. A friend who’s good with computers helped him put up his profile, but he didn’t include a picture. When my niece Caitlin caught wind of that, she got Dad’s password and everything and added a nice photo of him taken at Easter dinner that year. I’ll be darned. He got so many emails, it crashed his computer! Well, he was a good looking guy. Nice head of hair. And back then he still drove at night!
I remember asking him, “How’s the computer dating going, Dad?”
“Been out on a few.”
“You have? Where’d you go?”
“McDonalds, for breakfast.”
“Ho, ho, ho! Last of the big spenders!”
“Hey, I was going anyway. I figured, why not have some company?”
“How’d it go?”
“Alright, I guess, but it’s hard to keep ‘em straight.”
“The women?”
“Yeah. See, they’re all Catholic, about my age, so they were all named Mary. It’s confusing.”
“I can see that. Were any of the gals cute?”
“Listen, Ida, women my age fall into two categories, decent looking or better be a good cook. All three belonged in that second group. “
That’s if for now. Catch you on the flip side!
Hear Ida Tell It: Computer Dating
This Week: March 28- Once We Were Four, New Hampshire Theatre Project, 4:00pm, Portsmouth, NH*
Upcoming: April 26- Down to the A&P, The Dance Hall, 2:00pm, Kittery, ME
*performed as Susan