Its Harvard graduation and were waiting for better people to arrive. Years ago we had a store in Harvard Square. A very distinguished man came in at graduation and ordered Grape Nut ice cream in a cone. The next day he came back and said, in a sonorous voice, that the Grape Nut ice cream tasted neither like grapes nor nuts. I think he was prime minister of a small country. Another man, a famous teacher would order pounds of coffee on a weekly basis. Most weeks he would ask me if I knew that coffee was invented in Africa? l would say, Yes, I do. And he would again explain the discovery myths of coffee, as he had the week before. Two other faculty members had wives who functioned as advance men for their famous spouses. They would enter the store and gesture to their distinguished spouse and whisper, Do you know who that is? And I would say because my knowledge of trivia extends from the television shows of Robert Conrad to tenured faculty members. Yes, I do. All of us were happy. The ice cream tasted better. Be nice to people in blue blazers.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 16:41:03 +0000
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