June 16, 2015

THE WHISPERERS

Sitting on Table 10, I saw a gal sitting on

Table 8 - cup her left hand over her mouth -

and whisper with a slightly bent body - 

to the gal sitting right next to her.

A lady walking by stopped at Table 9. She

bent over to whisper something to a man 

sitting there all alone as his wife was

on the dance floor with some other man.

Then the first whisperer - the one on 

Table 8 - whispered again to the lady

next to her - this time laughing and 

pointing at the guy on Table 9 who was

just tapped on the shoulder by so and so.

Then the whisperer on Table 8 spotted me 

on Table 10 whispering about her with cupped hand to the person on my right with a slight

point of hand - as I was laughing and telling 

about what I was seeing going on over there.

Moral of the story: Sometimes banquets

have nothing to do with the food.

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2015

Painting: Dance at Le Moulin
de la Galette [1876]
Auguste Renoir, 
Musee d'Orsay, Paris