Sitting here on the porch in that quiet time I'm reflecting just a bit. TV is just a bit boring since all the channels are showing re-runs. I mean, I really like South Park but even I can only take so much.
But I wanted you to know that I did find the Krispy Kreme Iced Crullers, so I'm set. And finding those reminded me of one of my favorite episodes from the series Moonlighting, "North by North DiPesto", the first episode where the character Agnes DiPesto is the central character.
In it, Agnes is down because her life is so routine and boring, even to the kind of donut she always orders from the bakery - jelly. Wishing to make her life more exciting, David and Maddie give her a ticket to the LA Detectives Ball. There, Miss Dipesto (as she is affectionately called) begins a whirlwind 24 hours of handsome men, intrigue, murder, and secret agents. It's really a fun episode and sorta brings home the old adage "Be careful what you wish for" as she comes close to being rinsed off in a laundry - permanently. The episode ends with her happily back at her desk and her life, but not the same: she picks up the phone and says to the bakery "...make mine a cruller."
A convoluted connection, I know. And yet it brings to mind a song that often comes to mind when I'm in a situation like hers (minus the murder and secret agents, of course) "Anything Can Happen" by Was (Not Was). Or better, the line by Miss DiPesto when she's caught up in all of the mayhem and she protests by wailing, "I'm someone who answers the phones!"It's that amazing quality to life that gives Farmer Ted stuff to write about.
- Farmer Ted
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