METROPOLITAN DIARY
Laces and Canes
Dear Diary:
I was walking to work one day when I noticed an elegantly dressed older woman who was walking with a cane. Her shoelace was untied.
I stopped her and began to tie it for her.
“I am a mess today and I detest these thin shoelaces,” she said in lovely British accent.
I said that she was stunning, and she thanked me profusely.
Arriving at that elevator bank at my office, I saw an older man who also had a cane and an untied shoelace.
Do I? Yes!
“Have I got a gal for you,” I said to him.
— Nancy Hafter
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html
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