kiss my grits

sit com memories and lessons

The bumper sticker read “One day at a Time”.

As a ten year old, I didn’t know anything about AA or how their approach to life. Instead, I imagined keeping a pack of smokes up the one of my shirt sleeves and falling in love with the new tennent.

Ah how I loved seventies situational comedies. I don’t remember them well - I was a child at the time. I do remember how I loved them and how I reacted to them.

There was a show called “Alice”. It was set in a diner owned by a guy named ‘Mel’. Mel was the foil for the four waitresses who worked there.

There was Alice, the single mom, Another one was not so smart. Mel used to call her Dingy but saying it with a double ‘g’ as in Ding gee.

This seemingly insignificant detail is one of the few my memory has retained from Mel and Alice. There was a scene where the woman Mel would call ‘ding gee’ called out ‘Mel! Mel?’ where Mel replied ding gee! ding gee! Why do we remember what we remember?

I remember this because I laughed about this for weeks. At sc…