Eyebrows on Fire

            I hadn’t planned on taking a shower on Sunday, but then I looked at my appointment calendar and saw that I had to be at work early the next morning so I had to shave my face and wash my hair after all.

A phrase I heard just before waking up from a dream: “He would have shook his head a different way if his eyebrows had been on fire!”

I spent a lot of the day getting caught up on my writing. Then I started re-reading The Consolations by Boethius because I have to write something about it before tutorial on Tuesday.

The episode of Maverick that I watched was interesting for some of the parts of the story. A banker caught some thieves robbing his bank and they ran without having time to clean out the safe. The banker took advantage of that fact and took $5,000 for himself before the sheriff had time to come to ask him how much had been stolen. The assistant manager that had left the door open for the thieves was given the money to hide. Suddenly the sheriff was coming down the street so he had to put the sack in the nearest saddlebag, which turned out to belong to Maverick. They burst into Maverick’s hotel room just as he discovered the money. He gave them the sack and they counted the cash but it didn’t mesh with the amount that had been reported stolen. They assumed that the assistant clerk and Maverick were in cahoots and gave Maverick till a count of ten to cough up the cash or they’d blow his brains out. At the last second he pretended to admit that he really did have the extra money and that he’d buried it in someone’s front yard. He led them to what they didn’t realize was the sheriff’s house so when they started digging he came out and arrested them for trespassing. That gave Maverick five days to find the rest of the money and collect a reward for its return. He immediately suspected the banker and arranged a sting. He went to a nearby town where a woman that he knew had a trunk full of counterfeit money that was so poorly copied as to be impossible to pass to anyone that could see properly. Posing as a lawyer he took $5000 of the fake money to the banker and informed him that an old friend of his had died and left him $5000. Before giving him the money though he “accidentally” broke the banker’s glasses. The banker was so glad to get the money that he didn’t care and signed to have it sent to his account in Denver. After the counterfeit money was sent away, Maverick’s friend arrived, posing as the widow of the banker’s friend. Maverick explained that the banker he’d thought the wife had died but now the banker would have to return the money. He had to give real money from the bank to cover it. That way Maverick had all the money to give back to the bank, got a reward and also notified the treasury department that the banker had counterfeit money in his account.