It was the eve of the July Fourth holiday, Dickie had an appointment with a client in Boston, I was going along under my old creative director’s hat, and neither of us wanted to cope with the city’s holiday exodus. Still, Dickie looked doubtful.
“Do you know how?” he asked me.
“The only tricky part is finding a parking space at Oak Grove. Provided we can do that, it’s simple.”
The single benefit of the pre-holiday hysteria was that a few souls were escaping even earlier than usual from Boston, and there actually was a space in the Oak Grove parking lot. (more…)
CHARLIE CARD BLISS
Sunday, July 5th, 2009It was the eve of the July Fourth holiday, Dickie had an appointment with a client in Boston, I was going along under my old creative director’s hat, and neither of us wanted to cope with the city’s holiday exodus. Still, Dickie looked doubtful.
“Do you know how?” he asked me.
“The only tricky part is finding a parking space at Oak Grove. Provided we can do that, it’s simple.”
The single benefit of the pre-holiday hysteria was that a few souls were escaping even earlier than usual from Boston, and there actually was a space in the Oak Grove parking lot. (more…)
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