First off, when you’re called Miss at my age, you’re having a good day.
To be called Miss by a handsome, well-heeled, polite forty-year old that looks like a matinee idol is like winning The Derby.
Seems I dropped my scarf I Babe Paleyed around my straw satchel he chivalrously rescued attempting to return.
Barbara Paley, known as Babe, considered one of the classiest, chicest women who ever lived, 
started the trend with her Hermes scarf tied jauntily around her Chanel, Birkin, Gucci, Pucci handbags.
I didn’t hear him as he must have tried getting my attention because, suddenly he was in front of me, the scarf held delicately as if it were the Holy Grail.
“Oh,” I said, looking down at my naked bag, “that belongs to me.”
“I know,” he said, letting a dimple slip enhancing an already, awfully sexy smile.
Then it dawns on me how upset I would have been if I had actually lost it since, it belonged to my late, great friend Jackie I so loved and chronically miss.
Without thinking, after taking it from his outstretched hand, grabbed his waist gratefully hugging him.
One could say, my girl got loose.
“Forgive me,” I quickly said, realizing what I had done. “This scarf really means the world to me, and besides,” I said, doing my best Bette Davis, “what else to do when you meet Sir Lancelot.”
That smile that was already pretty big, tripled in size. 
SB
It’s so nice to know gallant gentlemen are still around, especially nice when they are matinee idols. You did the right thing with that hug. I’m sure he felt sufficiently rewarded by the grateful miss.
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I’m not demonstrative as a rule, so I don’t know where that hug came from. He smelled of lime cologne, the kind Brooks Brothers makes. He was like an ad who jumped off the page. 🙂
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Yum!
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😊
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So, any further sparks?
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No, I could have been, ya know, his…older sister. 🙂
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Age shouldn’t be a boundary, Beautiful.
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True, but sometimes it’s more appropriate in the long run.
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I do understand that. Sometimes, perhaps.
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Welp, I WOULD say you still got it. But the truth is, SB . . you never lost it in the first place.
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Oh Mr. Imma, how you tickle me.
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Welp, you inspire me to, so we’re even. 🙂
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A pas de deux. 😌
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I’ll take the lead.
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I’m old fashioned. I think men should always lead 😌
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That a girl. 🙂
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Delightful story! Yes, it would have been a shame to lose that scarf, in particular.
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She died in 2009, and I asked her husband for one because it was her signature to always wear one. I had it for almost 10 years before I could bring myself to clean it, since it still smelled of her cologne. I finally gave in. I could hear her giggle from the ether.
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Pfft! So? Did age ever stop the likes of Jane Fonda?
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No, a good example. I met her once. She was so nice. It was on a film, and we were shooting at a Synagogue And they used a lot of the members as extras who just swarmed her, and the grace that flowed dazzled me. I would’a ran for my trailer. LOL
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😉
She does come across as being a nice person. I admire her so much.
Ha ha ha!!
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She’s walking history. She’s had so many lives.
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So many! The biography on her was so good. “Jane Fonda in Five Acts” was great.
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Great you’re such a reader!
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Actually… Was the movie one… 😏
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Don’t know.
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Don’t know. Was reading about her brother’s passing. Kinda upset me for some reason. He was such a looker, on that Harley, his hair flyin’ in the wind. sigh
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I was shocked, too. To think we were chatting about his sister at the same time…
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He had lung cancer. Smoking, I’ll bet the eventual culprit. Although, my friend Jackie had it and never smoked, although all her men did, like tug boats. sigh
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Yep. I have lost so many friends to this one. Three 50 and under plus my father at 70. Am I pleased with my son’s smoking? I want to beat him senseless. But he is 21 and invincible. Fuck.
My sister works at the Montreal casino and had an anxiety attack while at the table – they were sure she was having a heart attack. When she filled in the paperwork and was asked if she smoked, she answered no. Where does she work? Casino. Since when? 1996 – You, ma’am, are considered an ex-smoker! Because back then, you were allowed to smoke inside… So, your friend? Victim of second-hand for sure.
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Wow…that’s classic alright.Hope your sister just had a scare and nothing more.
People squawked over Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s no smoking in restaurants law, but now, it’s a way of being. Lives are being saved not having to breathe in other people’s choice. My friend was a victim of her time, having no say. It was also so common. Everyone smoked, drank, ate steak. Took Valium like Pez. sigh
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Thank goodness for her. But what a wake-up call!
Smokers never gave a rat’s ass about non-smokers back then. It was another time that has thankfully changed.
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You said it. The mere mist of cigarette smoke makes me change positions. To think we had gotten used to it. Jackie always had narcissus plants in her house that absorb smoke since people puffed away like chimneys. Now it’s acceptable to say please don’t smoke in my home. Sigh
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I’m an ex-smoker and I am the same way. To think she couldn’t, back in the day, say no. Get outside for that shit.
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Change takes time. I smoked when I was very young, more for show than anything. It was like a prop, same as hoop earrings and a big handbag you could sleep in. sigh
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We go through phases, don’t we?
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Like the moon. 🌓
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Too true!
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What a lovely thing. Chivalry is not dead… and to have Sir Lancelot be the rescuer to boot? That is major bonus.
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He was quite the lad.
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I can well imagine.
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Oh, my! I’m ready to swoon. I wish someone had videoed the return of the scarf and added romantic music.
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Yes, it did have a Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr moment to it. Giggles from me to you.
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I love this gig of laughing with you.
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A great gig alright Anne. You’re the life of the party.
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Sounds like you made each other’s day. 🙂 Luckily he was there and not someone else who wouldn’t have said anything.
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I would have done the same and truly believe we reap what we sow.
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Sweeet!
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Thank you for reading it.
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