Well I have been busy the last couple of days. Yesterday, Friday, Bruce and Rosalyn invited me to the Shawnee Little Theatre which was putting on the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", and it was very good indeed, all the characters played their parts very well. As they have season tickets to the theatre they were invited to the little pre-performance party beforehand in the foyer. That was good too because I saw lots of people there I know.
This afternoon I went to the movies and saw 'Sabotage' which, for a change, I managed to follow and understand. It was about a DEA team busting a Mexican drug cartel, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the team leader. His Austrian accent was toned down a little, I noticed it wasn't as pronounced as when he was governor of California. I have mixed feelings about the film, it had far too much sex, violence, and F words, but it had plenty of action.
And on the subject of Mexican drug cartels...........
The woman charged in this case is 73. 73!!!!!!!!!! I thought little old ladies of 73 were busy with their grandchildren, or their pastimes and their communities. When did 73 year olds start driving white Cadillacs and directing drug cartels? Next time I am on the I-35 - which is the main corridor for drugs from Mexico - I will look out for little old ladies driving big cars.
Going back to the movies.......or more precisely the concession stand............
the bucket on the counter here is what they fill with popcorn, it is what people sit and eat while watching the movie. Do you wonder at the obesity!! I would have taken a picture of someone carrying in a full bucket but I get self conscious of photographing people at a fairly short distance.
I had a hot dog.
And this is an interesting murder trial going on at the moment, the Prosecution has just rested its case.
This woman stabbed her boyfriend 25 times in the face with her shoe. She's pleading self defence, and says he was on top of her, holding her down, so she grabbed her stiletto and was waving it behind her back, she couldn't see where she was hitting. I would have thought that he could have wrenched it out of her hand, but maybe it was the first blow that killed him, and she was just making sure with the following 24.
At first I was inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt, then a prosecution witness, a woman taxi driver who picked them up at a bar and took them to the boyfriend's luxury home gave her evidence.
Andersson was the victim, Trujillo the defendant.
Gomez said that during the short drive home, Trujillo was belligerent toward her, cursing as she tried to tell Gomez what streets to take. Gomez said Andersson was embarrassed by Trujillo's behavior and that "he never cursed. He never got out of line."
Gomez said she told Andersson, "You need to be careful. Your friend is out of control."
"He got my hand and squeezed it and said, 'l'll be OK,'" Gomez said.
Gomez testified she was so worried for Andersson that she got out of her cab, held Andersson's hands and prayed for him".
I wondered what the angry girl friend was doing while the taxi driver was holding the boyfriend's hands and praying for him. I'd have thought that would wind her up even more.
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