Eva Cassidy, Ladies and Gentlemen....

Matching Care Bear Lunchboxes.....

Photo by capy

So I walk to the train home from work - and get in just as the door is closing. There sitting next to her Dad is a small asian girl with an identical Care Bears lunchbox to mine. She lights up and blurts out quite loud:

"Do you love the Carebears too?"

Her father looks over at me - not knowing about my matching lunch tin - and smiles.

"Yes - I love the Carebears!" I say gently thinking that'll be the end of the conversation.

I laugh outloud - so does just about everyone on the train - which she loves and she burst out in a cacophany of "oh look I'm getting attention giggles".

Then says (sensing captive audience) quite loudly,

"My name is Michelle and I'm five. There is Bedtime Bear, Birthday Bear, Cheer Bear, Friend Bear, Funshine Bear, Good Luck Bear, Grumpy Bear, Love-A-Lot Bear, Tenderheart Bear and Wish Bear - And they live in the Forest of Feelings. (she knows this speech!) Do you like feelings? What's your name?"

"I'm Bob and I'm 41."

She pauses for a moment looking at me in my blue jeans, leather coat and black tshirt.

"Thats real old - isn't that too old for a lunchbox?" She says suddenly talking to me like an adult.

"Perhaps - but we're never too old for carebears." I said without missing a beat.

Several friends of dorothy are openly cackling and listening in at this point.

"Who is your favorite? Do you like WishBear or Tenderheart?"

I think about it for a bit and I said my favorite (quickly doing a mental scan of the list she'd blurted out) is Love-A-Lot Bear.

(at this point I think one of the gay guys is going to spontaneously combust because he's keeping in a catty bitchy comment like "SLUT!" or something of the like; he looks away as to not burst out)

My stop comes along and I go to leave and she says "Bye 41 year old Bob!"

Which makes everyone on the train erupt in laughter, and it's my exit and I head home up the escalator.

I laughed and smiled about it all the way home.

well - that was interesting....

Tonight was my first SFGMC rehearsal - and I discovered (OMG!) is First Tenor is way to high for my voice. Most of the arrangements were a sustained high G or A or B. Yikes! So I talked to the conductor and the 1st Tenor section leader about moving down to 2nd tenor. They said that they were making some moves from other singers and they'd let me know - but that they carefully try to balance the choir section numbers - and there was a chance that I would be the odd man out. So he's going to let me know via email what the "verdict" is. It's a little embarrassing- because my last two seasons with the Seattle Chorus I sang lower first no problem. I guess my voice has changed as I got older. I hope I didn't mess up my opportunity to sing with them.