September 6th, The Saturday 9...

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It's So Nice to Be Nice

Welcome to Saturday: 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so to speak. We encourage you to visit other participants' posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: It's So Nice to Be Nice  (to Your Neighbor) – 1947

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

 

1) In this song, Monica Lewis encourages us to greet our neighbors with a smile and a hello. Tell us about one of your neighbors.  I am blessed with wonderful neighbors on both sides and across the street.  Anne and Paul live across the street and have lived here in this community a year longer than I have.  They are originally from Syracuse, NY, and have kids and a grandson who all still live "up there".  Paul is fighting leukemia, and life is difficult for them right now with chemo treatments and lab tests several times a week.  They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary earlier this year, in April.  I had a little celebration for them here at my house because Paul wasn't up for doing anything big (or getting away for even a long weekend).  Their daughter, Mary, was also here for the big day.  It was a special party, for sure.

2) She reminds us that it's "nice to be nice." Who has recently shown you kindness?  My neighbor, Susan, is caring for my cats while I am down in Naples.  I am surrounded by kindness.

 

3) Monica Lewis was born in Chicago, where her mother performed with the Chicago Opera Company. Have you ever been to the opera?  No. Sorry to those who love Opera, but I don't think I could sit through an entire opera without cringing at every high note.  It's like fingernails on a chalkboard for me.

 

4) Her family moved to New York City, where she attended college by day and worked at radio station WMCA in the evenings to help support her family. Which do you listen to more: the radio or podcasts?  I have Sirius XM in my car and never tune in the radio.  Podcasts (and audiobooks) put me to sleep.

5) In the 1940s, she appeared all around New York – in nightclubs, on Broadway, and on radio shows. It was then that she got her best-known and longest-running role: the voice of Chiquita Banana. For decades, she was heard singing the jingle, "I'm Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say ..." Do you have any bananas in your kitchen now?  No, and there haven't been for months and months.  Joe liked bananas, but I don't care for them.  I will eat a banana, but I don't buy them anymore.

 

6) Around 1950, she moved to Hollywood. She had recently divorced and wanted a fresh start. There she dated an actor who was also newly divorced: Ronald Reagan. Obviously, she never had to ask, "Whatever became of him?" Who is the last former romance, classmate, or coworker that you looked up on the internet?  I don't recall ever looking someone up on the internet, unless you count Facebook, and I don't remember searching for someone there in a long time.

 

7) In 1947, when this song was popular, actor Ted Danson was born. He's best known as Sam Malone, the bartender at Cheers, "where everybody knows your name." Is there a bar or restaurant where you are recognized on sight?  Nope.

 
8) The 1947 Studebaker Champion was one of the first cars to have an adjustable driver's seat designed to accommodate motorists of various heights. When you're driving someone else's car, do you usually adjust the seat?  I haven't driven someone else's car in a very long time, but I am just under six feet tall, so unless the former driver was also tall, I would definitely have to adjust the seat to accommodate my long legs.

 

9) Random question: When someone takes advantage of you, are you angrier at them for doing it or at yourself for letting it happen?  I don't know that I would be angry about it, but it would for sure be on me for letting it happen.

Peace and Hugs!

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!