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Waiting... Lawrence Peters
Waiting for something on a line for the drug store counter. Absolutely exactly insane with boredom. A girl walks up talking with her friend, who goes behind the counter.
The girl says, "...so she was going on about something-- totiefields and something about one leg, you know? I know she's flipped. What the hell am I going to do with her?"
Murmured assent from the counter.
I say, "Totie Fields was a comedian from the '60s. She had one leg-- she lost it to diabetes or something. She played Vegas."
She says, "Totie Fields is a person?"
I'm blown. "Sure, like Buddy Hackett or Phyllis Diller!"
Blankness.
Then she said, "I thought totiefields was a place or something-- somewhere back home that you went to or something. She's old, sometimes I don't always know what she goes on about."
"Old people have long memories sometimes, and can't always connect the present to the past to people around them."
I say, "But what was she saying about Totie Fields?"
"Who knows?"
"But what was she saying about the leg?"
Her face lit up and she looked at me really for the first time. Then she smiled.
"She said, 'She only had one leg, but she didn't let it stand in her way...'".
We all were silent but for a moment, then everyone around us roared.
That old Tia surely made my day that day.
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