Seniors In Cars Getting Hookers

            On Sunday morning during song practice I kept seeing that same old man in the new looking silvery grey car driving slowly east as he rubbernecked the donut shop. I guess I was singing closer to the window than usual because I noticed that he makes a u-turn at O’Hara and goes west again, only to come back and to the same thing several minutes later, This repeated at least three times. I have a great idea for a reality show: “Seniors In Cars Getting Hookers”.

I spent a lot of time writing a long thread on Twitter but three-quarters of the way through a glitch occurred (perhaps the wi-fi phased out for a moment) and everything was lost.

            I spent a lot of the day writing about Saturday's Food Bank Adventure and didn't get caught up in my journal until that night.

            I have not received email notice about my enrolment in Albert Moritz’s Creative Writing course that starts in January, but when I went online and looked at my timetable the course is there in my calendar on Thursday nights in Northrop Frye Hall. I’m looking forward to it.

            I had a fried egg with one piece of toast for dinner and a beer while watching Peter Gunn.

            This story begins with two convicts, Charlie and Bob emerging from a sewer after a prison escape. An accomplice is there to pick them up. For one of them though it’s not good enough to be free, Charlie needs to immediately kill Peter Gunn. Some time later they are outside of Mother's in a delivery van with a rifle, waiting for Gunn to emerge. Inside, Edie is singing “Slow and Easy” by Henry Mancini and Sammy Cahn. Just as Gunn steps out of the door a panhandler stumbles forward to beg from Gunn and ends up taking the bullet. Gunn shoots and kills their driver but they get away. Charlie and Bob call an ambulance to their address and then steal their uniforms and vehicle. They drive to Mother's, Bob goes in and brings out Edie as a hostage although it doesn't look like she's being forced. After hearing that Edie has been kidnapped and after being frustrated what he considers to be inadequate police efforts, Gunn goes to a bar to talk to an old drunk named Pithias (Played by J. Pat O’Malley, who played the eloquent hobo Homer Tweed in an episode of the first season). Gunn shows him a photo but Pithias says he can’t focus until he’s had his morning constitutional, meaning a bottle, so Gunn buys him one. Pithias holds the photo in front of himself with his full arm extended. He says, “The low brow and beady eyes tell me he is a person of doubtful character!” Suddenly Gunn realizes that Pithias is looking in the mirror and tells him to try the picture. Pithias recognizes Bob and gives Gunn an address after he buys him another bottle. Gunn goes to the address and finds the landlord pretending to play a player piano. Gunn slips him some money for the keys to Bob’s room. He searches the room for a clue as to where they might be holding Edie and finds in the garbage a receipt from Wineberg’s Delicatessen. Gunn goes to the deli and shows Wineberg Bob’s picture. He recognizes him as the one that always orders “Two pastrami, lean, one with mustard and one without". In Wineberg’s opinion, pastrami without mustard is nothing. Wineberg asks Gunn if he is a policeman. Gunn smiles and says, “I’m a man interested in a pastrami sandwich with lots of mustard!" Later we see Bob come in to order three pastrami sandwiches. Gunn is in the back, watching from behind a curtain. Gunn sees Bob cross the street and go into a brownstone. He calls Lieutenant Jacoby. He comes alone and they discuss possible plans to rescue Edie. Jacoby’s plan is to seal off the area and try to break in, Gunn doesn’t like it. Gunn asks if Jacoby know anyone on the fire department and Jacoby says he knows Captain Fogerty. Gunn says, “Call him!” A little later Charlie and Bob hear sirens and a fire truck arrives. They come in and call for everyone there’s a fire and to clear the building. Charlie and Bob begin to take Edie out. On the steps Jacoby shouts for Wells to drop it. He turns to fire and Jacoby shoots him. Charlie grabs Edie and threatens to kill her if Jacoby doesn’t drop the gun but that was a distraction allowing Gunn to sneak up chop the gun out of his hand and knock him out with one punch.

Something tells me the fire department would not pretend there was a fire even in the service of the police. Also I don’t think the police would send firefighters into a hostage situation where they know the kidnappers are armed. What they would do and what they have done in reality is disguise themselves as firemen to catch criminals.