1965
Department of Morning Confusion
Chula Vista—It was 9 a.m. Sunday morning after a late Saturday night, when Josephine Luhnow and March McGennity were awakened by exclamations loudly voiced in the garden at the swimming pool.
“What a perfect location, overlooking the golf links … .most beautiful thing I have ever seen…”
Peeking from her bedroom window, Jo saw an attractive, well-dressed couple progressing along the terrace from room to room with a running chorus of admiration. She dressed hurriedly and went into the living room where the couple were now seated enjoying leisurely cigarettes.
Jo greeted them, accepted their comments on the beauty of the scene and its conveniences. It developed that she and they had a mutual acquaintance in Cincinnati. Finally, after an awkward pause, the wife exclaimed. “This IS the Chula Vista Golf Club, isn’t it?”
Confused explanations revealed that the couple, speaking no Spanish, had been driven up by a taxi driver who spoke no English, and they were admitted by non-English speaking servants, who assumed they were merely early morning callers.
1975
Lake begins its descent
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