Klarinet Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 1998/08

From: glsk622@-----.com (Gary L Smith)
Subj: Re: [kl] Basset Horn
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:37:46 -0400

Polka jobs!? What could be worse???

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:29:52 EDT "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu"
<leeson@-----.edu> writes:

>And some day, in about 15years when your 1941 Chevrolet Special
>Deluxe 2-Door 6-passenger all original mint condition classic
>automobile is rusty and has two broken axles, you will be called
>by the conductor of the Chicago Symphony begging you to rent them
>your two magnificent instruments, and you will say, "Sorry. I
>made a bad mistake when I sold one of them."
>
>And the conductor of the Chicago Symphony will say, "You are indeed
>a rotten person!"
>
>And you'll be sorry because your wife will have left you for a short,
>snub nosed man who himself has two basset horns and with whom she
>will lead a magnificent life enriched by her new husband. And you
>will be alone in a dark room, shades drawn, coughing, a bottle of
>cheap whiskey by your side, feverish, unable to count in 3/4 time,
>getting only an occasional Polka job for $8 and all the sauerkraut
>you can eat. A big dog will steal your shoes. And you will
>remember as you dream in a terrible drunken state what you might
>have had if you had kept your second basset horn instead of
>trading in this treasure for a bauble.
>
>Oh, you wicked, wicked man.

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