TheBanyanTree: PS: STARGAZR

[LaLinda]

This is an awful lot for a Monday Morning....I'll get some coffee and read
again.

Ghost? Really. Hm.

On Oct 31, 2016 6:09 AM, "Woofie" <woofess at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> I forgot to write the funny stuff!
>
> I visited her first in 1997. I was pretty crook at the time because I had
> had a serious loss of separation with a friend's dunny bowl, Because it
> happened in the US, there was NO way I was going to a doctor there, even
> though I had travel insurance. I had heard all the horror stories of
> medical costs there! So, I soldiered on, even though breathing was
> difficult with smashed ribs. By the time I got to YB's I was only fit for a
> bed.. any bed... so I ended up in YB's bed, while poor YB ended up on her
> sofa.
>
> Unfortunately YB's bed was a water bed....
>
> Once in a water bed with smashed ribs, there is NO way you can exit the
> bed!!
>
> YB had the answer, though.
>
> The answer was probably illegal, but it did work ;)
>
> After a puff or two, I was able to exit the wobbly waterbed with only a
> little pain:)
>
> This was A GOOD THING, because we had a meeting with another writer friend
> on Galveston island.
>
> This writer was a published writer and who had a regular newspaper column,
> used the pseudonym, B.S,Pyle.
>
> YB was really looking forward to meeting this new guy as I had really
> strung her along about Pyle.
>
> The meeting was, to put it mildly, a momentous moment.
>
> The look on YB's face when she finally met B.S.Pyle was a classic.
>
> Instead of meeting up with some macho male writer, YB was presented with a
> diminutive gentle, elderly lady!
>
> B.S. Pyle was  a ladylike but tough journo, who wrote bitingly sharp
> satire.
>
> IF YB had never forgiven me for this charade, it would have been well
> deserved, but she did.
> In fact the meet ended up with us breaking into the Uni of Texas'
> Galveston campus to take a pic of the famous ghost on the wall.
> We did not get caught, so did not get arrested, but we did see the ghost!
> W:)
>
> On 31/10/2016 9:24 AM, Dale M. Parish wrote:
>
>> Hard to believe it was 16 years ago that Youngblood's ashes were scattered
>> around the planet.  I wasn't a part of that, but I still think of her
>> every
>> time I get on the Galveston Ferry.
>>
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> --
>>
>> Dale M. Parish
>>
>> 628 Parish RD
>>
>> Orange TX 77632-0264
>>
>>
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