A door marked "Employee Entrance" opened and closed, opened and closed, as casino dealers, some still wearing their "black and whites," exited the hotel and headed toward their cars, the "day shift" now completed. As I watched them, I noticed, mmm, there were a heck of a lot of Cadillacs in the lot.
Can they all be casino employees' cars? Look at them! Every other car in the lot is a Cadillac!
I wondered what this Laura person drove, but I didn't have to wonder for long. Out she came, all smiles, and of course, she led me to her... Cadillac. I tried to be cool. After all, this was Vegas! And, off to dinner and to 28 years of wedded bliss we went!
Laura always had Cadillac taste, even if I only had a Chevrolet wallet. Laura never checked the price of anything. And she'd never buy just one of anything. We (read, "I") always found the money to pay for Laura's extravagance. I just couldn't say no to her.
Once upon a time when we were living in the Boston area, we went to one of those candle stores at the mall - Laura wanted to buy some piñon incense. The aroma reminded her of her childhood in the Southwest. But alas, the store didn't have piñon incense.
So, Laura went on line. About a week later, UPS came to our door with a huge carton addressed to her. Laura had ordered a case of piñon incense, 160 boxes with each box holding 64 cones of piñon incense. I'm still the owner of about 158 boxes of piñon incense, in case anyone out there wants to buy some!
With Laura, if it was worth doing, it was worth overdoing!
But who could get mad at her? She was the most loving person anywhere.
Animals were Laura's great passion. At one time, we owned five dogs and three horses - simultaneously. The horses were boarded at a nearby stable, and I nearly went broke paying their expenses - stable fees, feed, tack and gear, horseshoes, you name it -- it was like having a second mortgage.
When she worked at Petco, she fell in love with a rat! No, not me... a real rat! His name was Buddy (", the Rat"), and he was as fat as rats can be. Buddy's original owner left him with Petco, so that somebody would adopt him. Laura adopted him and came home one night with Buddy and a huge rat cage (the cage had three bedrooms, a den, two bathrooms and a finished basement). As nice as his rat cage was (it could have been a House Beautiful feature story), Buddy often spent hours sitting outside the cage, on Laura's shoulder. You see, Laura felt bad for Buddy, considering that he was unjustly confined to a cage.
Laura loved Buddy so much that she adopted three more rats - all females. We had to get another great big rat cage for the girls. (You can't put male and female rats together, or they would fRATernize to no end!)
With rats, dogs, horses, piñon incense, and assorted other follies and frills, life with Laura was never boring! We lived and laughed well and often.
Sure, I loved her, but more to the point, I liked her very much!
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