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a friend's mother passed away...

Published Sunday, September 03, 2006 by lecram sinun | E-mail this post

... last night. Though it wasn't quite unexpected as the doctor had recently given her 6 months. I called him up this morning to check in on him and ask if there was anyway I could help. He said, "Have coffee with me."

I told him I would be right there. We met at the local java joint within 15 minutes of the call. While waiting in line for the barista to take our orders this lady, a regular customer sitting down looked up at my friend and said, "That was a really nice picture of you in the paper."

"Which paper?"

"Today's..." At which point she shuffled through her pile and pulled out the entertainment section. There on the back page where the short features of upcoming shows was indeed a picture of my friend. "Says here you are performing a comedy show this Friday."

My friend burst out laughing. I asked, "Did you know you had a show this Friday?"

"I guess I do now!" Apparently he had never been contacted on the confirmation of the gig and only found out when he was shown the blurb in the paper. He quickly followed with, "Boy, do I have some new material for this show."