持久

年輕時持久的定義是,敦倫間能持久而不射。

中年時持久的定義是,使用的工具能持久的堅挺。

老年時持久的定義是,持久的性慾望。

Billy Crystal 在 City Slickers 說的

“Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so quickly. When you’re a teenager you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, “What happened to my twenties?” Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You’ll call it a procedure, but it’s a surgery. Your sixties you have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn’t matter because you can’t hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two, lunch around ten, breakfast the night before. And you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate in soft yogurt and muttering “how come the kids don’t call?” By your eighties, you’ve had a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can’t stand but who you call mama. Any questions?”

第一次看這電影是二十幾歲,覺得 Billy Crystal 講淂滿好笑的。現在看已經笑不出來了,因為講得滿傳神的,還真感覺如此。


Love

當年輕夫妻牽著手時,我看到愛的純真。當年輕夫妻裸體相擁時,我看到愛的火熱。

當老夫妻牽著手時,我看到真愛的存在。當老夫妻裸體相擁時,我看到永恆的愛直通彼此的心靈。

中國城的超市

記得 96 年剛來這裡時,想要買新鮮蔬果時,中國城的超市是唯一的選擇。來中國城的超市購物並不是很好的經驗,除了停車不便,摩肩擦踵的人群,說著聽不懂的語言,總覺得好像回到了老婆的家鄉。

99 年大華超市在 Renton 開了第一間店,由於距離遠需要買台式的東西,就會特地去大華超市購買,不然中國城的超市的超市還是唯一的選擇。

04 年大華超市在 Edmonds 又開了間分店,差不多同一時間,韓國商店 Pal-Do world 也在 Lynnwood 開張(於 2011 年關店),由於距離近,慢慢的我們都是在這裡購買新鮮蔬果。

過去十年來,H-mart,和一些越式超市陸續的在居住地區附近開張,中國城超市,比如宇和島屋,越華等,往郊區開分店,再加上 Central Link 輕鐵的行駛,Martin Luther King Way 的東南亞超市群也重新以新的裝潢招攬顧客,我們去中國城超市的機會越來越少。

已經不記得上次去中國城的超市是什麼時候,至少有兩年的時間吧?昨天再去了中國城的超市,發現停車非常的方便,顧客明顯的減少。看看價錢,並不值得特地來這裡購買生鮮蔬果。

看著 Jackson Street 上已經架設好的 Capitol Hill Streetcar,中國城正面對著改變,不知道她是否會回到以前的輝煌歲月?


USS Shoup

I had a privilege to visit USS Shoup today. Thank you very much for spending time with us.

Thank you very much for your service.