Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I come from good genes

here is an actual email my mother wrote me in college:

EXCITING NEWS FROM THE HI POINT BACK YARD
Lady Changes Basketball Net: "I Did It All By Myself," She Exclaims.
Los Angeles, California: Tuesday, July 10th, Jody Myers of South Carthay changed the basketball hoop net in her cemented backyard all by herself. Distressed at the sight of torn, white polyester shreds of net on the basketball rim, which had been dangling woefully for several months, Myers, 47 (but looking much younger than her years), decided to take matters into her own hands. "I do that a lot," she admitted proudly. It seems that Myers tried to find partners in her enterprise, but failed to gain the assistance of her daughter, 19, who sat helplessly on the nearby steps complaining about her aching legs. Downstairs neighbor Michal Tannenbaum, 12, cheerfully volunteered her aid by poking the rim with a hooked garden tool, but unfortunately, that endeavor proved useless. Myers eventually suspended the new net by climbing onto a ladder.

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