[Rhodes22-list] STANding out from the crowd

[Theodore Boender]

Me too. 

> On Mar 16, 2014, at 5:31 PM, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Joe,
> I have no idea what you are smoking, but I want some of it.
> 
> Rummy
> 
> 
> In a message dated 3/16/2014 1:06:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> jjcampjr at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> NB  (or "note well" in literary vernacular)
> 
> Everyone (or nearly everyone) in the R-22 grandSTANd wished the mighty  
> mister Spitzer a warm and happy birthday on or close to the actual date.  As 
> more Rhodies did this, the result was a classic "dog-pile on the  rabbit" 
> scenario. I underSTANd the tug of social and cultural responsibility,  but I 
> really make it a point to try to set myself aside in nearly every  endeavor.  
> (For example, I resolved to part my hair on the right side...  the girl 
> side... at the age of twelve).  Despite the fact that I love  STAN as much as the 
> next (or former) Rhodie, the relative value of tossing my  declaration atop 
> the pile meant that it would be lost in the congratulatory  soup of 
> similarly expressed wishes.  Thus, would I relegate myself to  just another "happy 
> birthday" in STAN's overall perception of the worship of  his anxiety-ridden 
> minions. 
> 
> So, here it is,  well past the birthday (day) and I have chosen this 
> outSTANding opportunity to  set myself apart (again) and say "many more, STAN."  
> It's like making  one's self fashionably late to a posh posh party so as to 
> STANd out in the  perception of the early arrivals (now well imbibed on the 
> host's booze, to  STANd out in the perception of the host, himself. Then, in 
> truly  egotistically managed  precision, to announce that lateness, calling 
> more  attention onto the lateness and forcing the host to forgive that 
> transgression  in the long established tradition of turning the other  cheek. 
> 
> Now, I am the center of attention, and  everyone notices what I am wearing. 
> Now, I am the talk of the party...  and the next party (for which I also 
> will be late).
> I amble to the bar,  dangle a crisp twenty over the tip glass and smile at 
> the frazzled  bartender:
> 
> "I'll have a VO and water please, splash of lime. I'm Joe,  see you in 
> about twenty minutes.  Where's the birthday boy?"
> 
> Joe  Camp
> s/v John Dawson
> on the hard in Horsham, PA
> and dreaming of  mid-april    
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