Things heard on a trolley

I am back. Here is something heard on a trolley in Cooperstown, NY. Picture a precocious seven year old girl with her father on her way to the Baseball Hall of Fame. She turns to the old lady sitting in the seats behind her and asks if she knows "Riley". Riley is apparently another 7 year old girl that she met in Cooperstown. The lady says "no". The two chat away.

The girl goes on to tell everybody that her name is Laila. It is pronounced "lay-la", just like the song by Derrick and the Dominos (Eric Clapton). She was named after a boxer, Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammed Ali and co-host, with Hulk Hogan, of American Gladiators (the present version). Then she asks the old lady and says, "What is your grandpa's name?".

Oddly, enough the "grandpa" was the lady's HUSBAND. He did look a bit like father time beat him, actually the living shit out of him, so he did look rather weathered and crotchedy. (Have to work "crotch" into a story anyway I can) He could have been about 144 years of age, if he was a day. He could have passed for the lady's father, perhaps, which makes the scene all funnier.

She, the lady, replies that it is not her grandpa, but her husband. We, then, got off the trolley, giggling. That was a highlight in the real world.