Where do you get your ideas from? Part 3

Alan and I do like a do. We like the planning and the dressing up and the meeting old friends and talking to new people. And I always bring the placecards home. And they always make me think: Who wrote these? Did they also buy the cards? Did someone make the decision to handwrite rather than print the names and, if so, why? Was writing these cards a delight, or a chore? Was the person who wrote them coming to the event too? Did s/he know the people whose names s/he was writing? Did the person practice their handwriting before they began? Or were they chosen to do the job because of their handwriting? If they were, how did they feel about that? Who organised where people were going to be sat, and did they do it in order that the event would be harmonious – or did they have mischief in mind? And I also think about all of the dinners that Alan and I have been to. The one where I had a charming, but rather deaf gentleman next to me, and so spent most of the evening giving answers that I thought were made of words that couldn’t be misheard, rather than the truth. (I decided on this strategy after an exhange that went: ‘Have you been to Italy?’ ‘Yes – Sicily.’ ‘Yes. Which part of Italy? ‘ ‘Sicily.’ ‘I know, I heard you. But where in Italy?’ ‘.) The one where Alan got the lady whose opening gambit was ‘I didn’t really want to come without my cat’. The one where I helped a man to wo...
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