Dear Diary,
Bob was so good tonight I hardly know where to begin. He was at the Navy air training base at Los Alomitos, California. For one thing, he sounded like his old self again. When he pulled a bad one, he had a comeback. Once he was talking about spring cleaning. He said, “I wanted to clean out my refrigerator, but my relatives beat me to it.” It was greeted by almost dead silence. He said, “That was a joke!” The was he said it brought down the roof, then he added, “Well, I had to convince myself, didn’t I?” Later he hit another snag, almost as bad, and said (with that wonderful laugh I never hear enough of), “I gave ’em a chance.” That all happened so quickly it was hard to catch, but it was worth listening for.
Muriel Windham's Diary 