Idiosyncrasies of a New Yorker
According to her birth certificate, she will turn 102 on May 16, this year.
Feisty Mrs. Bishop has steadfastly refused to acknowledge that she has lived a century.
Accepting it as vanity, the family decided to respect Mrs. Bishop’s sensitivities by sending invitations referring to “the 70th anniversary of her 30th birthday” to a party celebrating her 100th birthday in 2008.
Mrs. Bishop did quick work on the greeting cards she received that mentioned a 100th birthday, tearing out the offending number and leaving the rest of each card intact.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/nyregion/27barbados.html?hp
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