[Oe List ...] Incestuous World

[Beret Griffith]

One time I was taking a bus in Manhattan from the Port Authority 
across 42nd Street to the UN area for a Women in Development 
Symposium meeting. There was one other person on the bus, a really 
scruffy man sitting in the front. I was carrying a bunch of stuff, 
walked to the back and didn't really look closely at him. After I got 
seated I looked toward the front and thought to myself, that he 
looked familiar. I kept looking at him, wondering where I'd seen him 
before. Then he looked up, glanced around the bus and saw me. He gave 
a shout and a big hello. I then recognized him. He was a major 
character from Uptown Chicago who was always wandering the streets. 
When I'd seen him we always said hello and exchanged a few words. I 
said "Hi" and waved and it was time to get off the bus. I never knew 
his name. No one else got on the bus and he didn't get off. I expect 
he was staying warm.

Beret Griffith

At 12:43 PM 2/8/2007, you wrote:
>Frank,
>
>Great stories!  My husband Fred was principal of an American school in Belo
>Horizonte, Brazil, in 1968 -70.  (I taught 2nd grade.)  In 1975, Fred was
>walking down a street in Hong Kong, and a young woman said, "Mr. 
>McGuire!"  It was
>one of the American students who had married an international banker 
>and moved
>to Hong Kong.
>
>Jann McGuire
>Lindsay, CA, where Darrel's rain dance paid of a little.  Keep it up!
>
>
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