Dilemma

Your Center City Correspondent is in the middle of a project that he thought he would never be doing again – painting the house. The interior. I thought we’d be hiring a painter to do the work, but now that I’ve got time on my hands, I thought I’d give it a go. We decided to do the living room and the foyer in neutral colors, or as our son calls it “Jones beige.” In our younger days, we’d start in the morning and continue working until the room was done. Then it took us a weekend to do a room. This time we started on the living room on Monday, and here it is Thursday morning and it’s still not done. There’s just so many times in a day these old bones can go up and down on a ladder. I figure we’ll finish the living room today, and work on the foyer this weekend. But there is another reason why it’s taking so long.




Just as I was setting up to finish the room on Wednesday, the phone rang and it was Mrs. CCC telling me that she had two tickets to the Phillies playoff game #1at 2:30 and asked if I wanted to go!* Let’s review the choices, paint or Phillies game. So off we were to the game and what a delight it was. The Phils won 5-1 in a complete game performance by Cliff Lee. And what a great atmosphere it was, with 46,000 towel-waving fanatics. I heard the 2:30 start time was going to be a problem for fans – I guess not. Sure it was breezy, I thought I saw Miss Gulch fly by the upper deck on her bike. Call it a win-dy.



Alas, it was only a one day reprieve, so it’s back to the paint can today. Go Phils!!



*When I relayed my good fortune to a buddy of mine, he responded, “I don’t want to burst your bubble, but she asked me first!” I’m still laughing at that one.