At 02:01 PM 5/28/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress wrote:

>LOL!!!!

Heeheehee.

>I was in a show once where my "boyfriend" was a cop.
>So the actor (delighful fellow, I'd tell you his name if my brain hadn't
>misfiled it), would come in eating a powdered sugar doughnut. Then he'd
>wipe his hands on my dress when we hugged.
>The costume mistress was wondering WHAT in the HELL I was leaning up
>against to get that white dust all over me.
>Only took a couple nights (and a confession) to: "Oh. Yeah."
>=g=

   Well, he was trying to get INTO the character, don't'cha know!

>(that was the show wherein, not only did I find out I was pregnant after
>being cast, so would go off stage and promptly lean against the wall and
>fall asleep ((but never missed a cue, despite giving the director
>worries)), but had surgery on my hand the week before we opened, so spent
>the show with my ring finger in a splint. Looked like I was flipping off
>the audience -- but it was so in character, that many folks thought it
>was costume....)

Or at least in character.

>gots pictures of that somewhere, tygress

Good!

Back to cops and doughnuts -- our friends Tom & Amanda lived in Crown
Point, Indiana, for a while.  Tom worked in Chicago and Amanda made many
trips to the city for her art instruction at the Morton Arboretum (where
she got her certificate in nature art).  She said that the Chicago P.D. got
in the habit of trying to get drivers to slow down on the freeway by
stationing unmanned cop cars along the side of the roadway.  They left one
out in the same spot a little too long, though, because one morning some
wag stopped by and put a box of doughnuts on the hood of the unit!

Veloci--that's telling 'em--raptor


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