martedì 9 agosto 2016

Captain Fantastic

   'You're a professor, aren't you,' she said confidently as she sat there with husband and son in the bar.
   'O no no no no no,' I assured her, 'just outstandingly near-sighted.'
   They were in town for a wedding, had surveyed the used book store nextdoor, were nursing coffee and soft-fruit tarts till it was time for Captain Fantastic at the neighbourhood cinema.
   'According to the reviews,' said the twenty-something, 'it's the story of my life.'  For Dad most assuredly is a professor, in Chicago.
   'Lucky lad,' I thought to myself.  Minus, of course, the rock climbing.--Giac