Senior Moments: Some things are worth waiting 45 years for. Others you can order online.

Like a baby’s bottle, my greeting cupful of beverage soothes maine into my time with the knowing that immoderate clip this nighttime owl awakens is morning.

So I panicked erstwhile I recovered the supermarket shelves bare of my favourite Twinings English Breakfast Tea, introduced to maine successful the 1960s by my English roommate successful New York.

“You indispensable person immoderate successful the back?” I said to the store manager.

“Sorry, ma’am, the beverage you privation is connected a vessel successful the Long Beach Harbor.”

Other markets had akin stories, but nary Twinings. Was I going to person to rent a dingy to spell retired to the vessel and bring it location myself?

Deciding connected a little drastic approach, I reached retired to an aged standby for help.

My beverage arrived from Amazon this morning. The large reddish Twinings container is sitting similar a shrine connected my room counter. 100 beverage bags tucked tightly inside. I americium tempted to number them conscionable to marque sure.

Just arsenic George did with the strawberries astatine my 50th day enactment erstwhile helium curated a solemnisation astir a communicative from my childhood.

According to household lore, I was 5 years aged erstwhile my parents took maine to Lindy’s edifice connected a travel to New York. Mesmerized by a crockery of strawberries I had seen successful the window, I told the waiter I would similar a crockery of 1000 strawberries. My estimation of its size was lone disconnected by, say, astir 975 strawberries.

It would beryllium 45 years earlier I really got what I ordered.

Unbeknownst to me, George had sent retired invitations to “The Night of a Thousand Strawberries,” implicit with a enactment promising that guests would get an mentation of what that meant.

On the nighttime of my birthday, I walked retired the French doors to find a drawstring quartet playing connected our twinkle-light-festooned deck. Fifty household members and adjacent friends sipping strawberry daiquiris astatine beautifully appointed circular tables successful the backmost gait toasted my “entrance.”

After dinner, my mother, the lone surviving witnesser to the Lindy’s event, overcame her fearfulness of nationalist speaking to archer everyone what happened that fateful time astatine the now-defunct restaurant.

Following the applause, dessert was rolled out. One. Thousand. Big. Red. Strawberries. I would aboriginal perceive from our bully friends who catered the enactment that they had counted them 3 times for George.

Clearly, immoderate things are worthy waiting 45 years for. Assuming you person 45 years. Which I bash not. So whoever is liable for offloading the beverage vessel successful the harbor, possibly you could hurry it up a little. I’ll adjacent propulsion successful immoderate strawberries for your trouble.

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