So let's add a new dimension to James' birthday celebration this year by thinking a little bit about October 10 1955. It was a Monday, and we know that Monday's child is fair of face. Right? So far, so good. There were already 3 children of preschool age waiting at home for his arrival. That's just hard to imagine.
Eisenhower was President and Mitch Miller was playing on the radio. Vice President Richard Nixon was featured on the cover of Time magazine that week--scary looking even then. Speaking of scary, James shares his birthday with David Lee Roth.
We had another "Pay it Forward" incident last week while James was here in Gloucester. On our first night, we decided to have dinner at Giuseppe's, a restaurant we hadn't been to in a while. We were having a drink at the bar while we waited for my aunt and uncle to arrive. A woman was celebrating her 94th birthday so James offered to buy her a shot to celebrate. Not surprisingly, she refused but was quite charmed at James' flirting with her. I said if she refused a drink, she was definitely not related to the Ryans. We were re-telling this story at our table after we were seated when a man approached the table to compliment James on how he treated the birthday girl. He left his gift card with some remainder on it for us to apply to our meal and noted he was paying it forward.
At first, I thought it was an appropriate turn of events following my previous efforts. Then we learned that Giuseppe's unexpectedly closed its doors for good the very next day! I think we'll try to have birthday dinner someplace we hope will be open the next day.
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