More Peppermint, Please

[catelin]

Today has been one of those days that's everything fall should be...the kind of day where you take a big bite of caramel apple in the morning and that feeling stays with you as long as you need it. Walked into the post office around ten, hair piled up all higgledy-piggledy on top of my head, in my favorite pair of vintage 40's slacks and a black turtleneck. An old man came up behind me as I was talking to the post office guy...shooting the breeze while I was getting my stamps. He was beautiful, probably in his late seventies or early eighties. One of these fabulous old guys who still gets dressed to the nines to go downtown. Full head of white hair. He smelled like lavender and shook a little as he walked. All the post office guys seemed to know him...just like they know me. He opened a little bag of peppermint sticks, the good kind--those old-fashioned soft and sugary ones that melt against your tongue. The post office guy and I each took one and thanked him. I started to walk out and he grabbed my hand. Giving it a quick squeeze he said, "Honey, you look like one of them old movie stars." I laughed and kissed his cheek before I floated the rest of the way out to my car.

Comments

[doctorgogol.livejournal.com]

THAT'S the kind of old man I aspire to be.

And it's true. You are a star. :)

Hee!

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Higgledy-piggeldy! That's one of my favorite words (phrases?) Others that qualify: pell-mell, argle-bargle, foofaraw.

[leisaie.livejournal.com]

Now you just have to move to New England- that's a real fall day!

more?

[love069.livejournal.com]

There are some people who are transpreant and there feelings warms the place they stay in so that evry body gets that feeling ,,you are and what you get is what did you actually put and spread all that sweet feeings...
God Blees you

[tamperevident.livejournal.com]

a beautiful day indeed!

i love that kind of classy old men! i had a coulpe of them come in often at the roadside farm and nursery where i worked last year -- wearing suits and fedora hats, stepping lightly, looking for rare plants for their garden. it was truely inspiring to see.

[razorart.livejournal.com]

That is priceless!

You are amazing....

[raveen.livejournal.com]

Where is it you live again??? Pleasantville Texas??

[anoisblue.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful moment in the day!

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

A perfect moment, thanks for sharing, gave me a warm little glow, as your writing often does :)

I want a peppermint now

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

How fabulous and lovely. :D I can imagine the scene quite well.

[kenhighcountry.livejournal.com]

A lovely moment. Thank you for sharing it.
They say by a certain age you have the face you've earned. I hope that with it comes this kind of grace as well.

I want to be him, and live with Georgia O'Keefe, who was beautiful at 90.

just a quick...

[ariabeltane.livejournal.com]

thank you for comming back. This is the kind of post that I love from you Cate! You make my day everytime!

Oh, if you only knew ...

[jaarronn.livejournal.com]

how tumultuously (I like that word too!)happy and warm and hopeful your post has made me feel! I'm just so glad that you weren't away from us here in LJ for too long.
Speaking for myself, you've expanded my horizons and made my world a better place. Not only that, I have been enjoying reading a lot of your LJ friends entries too, so much so that I've added some of them to my friends list. Some, like you, were even kind enough to add me to theirs. (amazingly) I will very likely approach some others too as time goes on - Lot's of good stuff in your planet system Cate and I thank you....

Demanding reader

[raindog.livejournal.com]

I really loved this vignette, CC. More! More! (She says as she bangs her whiskey glass on the mouse pad...)