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One of our annual traditions on Martha's Vineyard are challenge matches of Skee Ball and Air Hockey. So, after dinner nearby, Flo and I made our way up Circuit Avenue in Oak Bluffs to Ryan's Amusement Center. Our ferocious games of air hockey drew a crowd of young onlookers and we left the hockey table for them as we moved to Skee Ball -- our real passion. As we played game after game, we heard the encouraging cheers behind us. Flo retired after beating her all-time high score, but I played on. I was on a roll. The cheers persisted - now mixed with Flo's voice behind me. Flo's laugh caused me to pause and turn. She was viewing a video on a spectator's iPhone. It was of me. He posted it somewhere. The title was "Pops Kills It!" On the heel on several "Sirs" in the past few days, "Pops" settled in slowly. Well, Pops can still play a mean game of Skee Ball.

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Cayce Crown

Robert Burns expressed it well in his poem "To A Louse"
Oh, would some Power give us the gift
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!

Submitted by MarilynGenoa on Thu, 09/07/2017 - 04:27

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Marilyn Genoa

The other night a friend and I were on our way to the theater and decided to take a cab from Penn. Apparently the cab station on 7th has been moved and when it was pointed out to us that we needed to go to the end of the block and we began to walk the person in charge directed us into a standing cab directly in front of the station whispering "I am not going to make her walk" nodding to my friend. I wasn't sure how to take that, She giggled at me, we were late, she certainly doesn't look or feel like she needed any assistance, and indeed we later made it back from the theater to Penn by foot in record time---I could barely keep up with her. She accepted his gesture with a smile and a wink and we had a wonderful evening.
Corey Bearak

Tried searching for the video but to no avail. Recall skeeball from the Rockaway boardwalk.

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