Laughing

Bob and I are eating lunch today, we're still reading the Sunday newspapers, and I burst out laughing, practically fall off my chair. He says, Are you through? I say, Not yet!!

This is what made me laugh:

"One time a Frenchwoman

came in asking for 'cah-MUSS",

and Karen and I got really scared.

It was very unsettling. We were all

like: 'Why is she saying it that way?

She's French! What do we do?'"

- Margarita Shalin,

St. Mark's Bookshop

NYTimes Book Review, page 31

I guess you have to be a bookseller, Bob just looked at me, when I read it to him.