AN ANNIVERSARY ROLL ON THE FLOOR!

August 24, 2016


Now that the chorus of “I Just Threw Up In My Mouth” has subsided, I will let Bonnie tell it, because, technically, I wasn’t there.

The alarm went off, David turned it off and headed to the shower.  I rolled over because I knew I could get at least 30 minutes more sleep before he turned the water off.  No sooner had he closed the bathroom door than the phone rang: “Room service. May I bring your breakfast.” Early, but sure.  On mornings when he has an early talk, David orders wheat toast, bacon, and coffee.  It saves him time for rehersal before entering the theater.

I opened the door and a young man was standing there holding 7 plates of food, struggling to keep them from falling.  He came in and began setting food on the couch, on the bed, and on the desk when a plate of breakfast rolls tumbled to the floor, scattering everywhere.  I asked David what he had ordered for breakfast, and it was his cruise-usual – toast, bacon and coffee.  I told the young man the wrong breakfast was on our floor.  He went back to his cart in the hall and produced David’s order, apologized and picked up the extra food and left.  We later found a blueberry sweet roll and a croissant under our bed.  That was the “anniversary roll on the floor.”

I went to the Windjammer for my breakfast and to walk while David rehearsed for “Victoria: The Crown Jewel of British Columbia,” his last talk of this cruise.  I had baked beans and butter bread.

And one last thing, an anniversary song first sung by Melvin David, Sr. – “Forty-eight years with the wrong woman is a mighty long time!” was sung from the shower by Melvin David, Jr.