Warmup

(1994 April)

Yesterday I was lying on my single bed when I felt myself being shaken by Dorthea. "Get up! Wake up, and go across the hall and tell a man what a fine place Schmitt is." The room across from mine is used for many meetings, such as beauty shop, little talks, etc. I went in and was introduced to RF, a tall well-filled-out man with a space between his two large upper teeth. It turned out he was from WRCO, the local radio place, and was here for a story. He was casual and easy to know, and we soon got over being strangers. The first thing he said was "You were a school teacher - weren't you?" I silently indicated I didn't want to go on the air about that, and he laughed and said he could tell from my speech, the grammar and syntax so good, etc. We talked quite a bit - I was careful of my interview when suddenly he said, "Well now I think we can start to tape."