Two truths and a lie

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If somebody doesn't know what a "sliding pond" is, they're might not be from NYC.

1. I once bought a 12-cent egg cream (not on sale) in about 1977.

2. The Sunday New York Times cost 50 cents in 1968.

3. The New York Daily news went from 5 cents, to 8 cents, then back to 5 cents.

What's a sliding pond?

1. I wrote long, descriptive sentences without punctuation at the age of 4 - 5
".....and they were fluttering and flapping and climbing in the wind like really strong butterflies, and ...." (re: birds)

2. I went to speech therapy for three years to improve my pronunciation because I had an odd accent, a lisp, and I spoke very quickly / quietly.

3. I repeated the word "very" for an entire page when I was six ("it was very very very ...")

A "sliding pond" is what everybody else calls a "slide." You go up the steps, and slide down to the floor.

The answer just might be #2. You went to speech therapy for longer than three years.

I went on and off for quite a long time. I had a stutter/stammer. I spoke too fast. I transposed /r/ and /w/. I still occasionally stutter, and transpose /r/ and /w/.

2 is true. I only went three years. I was recommended to continue but I didn't. I also had difficulty with /r / (hence, mucky baaaaas), and /s/. I had a Bostonian accent and they tried desperately to make me sound British. I'm still a hybrid. I stammer now if I'm groping for words.

My lie was 3. I repeated "long" for a whole page. It was a very long drive, apparently.

1 is a direct quote. True.

You must have been a "Boston Brahmin" as a little girl

1. I played the Commissioner when we played Batman and Robin.

2. I hated playing "freeze tag" because you ran around so much.

3. I never played "doctor" with a girl.

Yes, I sounded like a Bostonian Brahmin Bohemian.

I think your lie is 3.
I played doctor with a girl but I was very, very young.

That's absolutely correct!

I'll see you about 7 or so. I have to work now.

The Wolfman is back from his Daily Howl

1. I am known as the Wolfman in sundry supermarkets.

2. I used to be known as "Spike" because of my slightly "spiky" hair (not full-blown punk at all) which I wore in the late 80s.

3. I also neigh like a horse in the subways.

Please tell me it's 3.

It's #3 LOL....what would you rather have....a howling Wolfman, or a neighing Horseman?

LOL....don't answer that. You just might like people to act dignified in public----which I can understand. You just might inspire me to act dignified on the subway.

You know I'm being a "silly Billy," don't you?

1. I had a crush on my next-door neighbor when I lived on Nixon Court in Brooklyn.

2. She reciprocated the crush.

3. In Brighton Beach, I took a prostitute to the movies----but I decided not to "do anything."

The neighing horseman sounds a touch too Washington Irving for me.
lol

Let's go for the wolfman.

1 and 2 must go together and thus be true.

3 would be nice, although it seems to be false given 1 and 2.

I love that answer, Isabella---you're my buddy for sure!

The answer is #2. She sort of liked me as a friend---but she didn't like me "that way."

That actually happened. I took this prostitute to the movies. I don't know exactly what my intentions were. I was pretty lonely. This was 1986, at age 25. I took her back to her home. We made out a little. But then I decided that I liked her as a friend, and not a sex object. So I stopped myself in my tracks. She wasn't disappointed.

We said hello to each other throughout the remainder of the time I lived in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. I moved away about 1988 or so.

I was just listening to Les Mis (Lovely Ladies), about prostitution. We seem to be on a similar wavelength.


I hope she's doing well today wherever she is.

Music that can always make me cry, but didn't today:

1. Bookends, by Simon & Garfunkel
2. I Dreamed a Dream, Les Mis (particularly Broadway, but also London)
3. Bring him Home, Les Mis (as above)
4. Mama, I'm Comin' Home, Ozzy

When I said you're my "buddy," it doesn't mean I don't view you as a feminine woman. I do. You're very feminine. Strong and dignified.

Thank you very much but I wasn't offended whatsoever -- even though you're a wolf.

Is one of those a lie? If so, I would go with #4.