I’m lumping these together in part because of blogging blah-ing, but also because both Grooves were similar, concerned predominantly with pre-election jitters. We were concerned about whether the second (supposed to be third) Presidential Debate would happen (it did) and then we didn’t talk about it much after the fact. We did talk a lot about our concerns for the election, and our hope that everything will go smoothly, that all votes will be counted. Most of us planned to vote early in New York or had already voted by mail. We all are a bit anxious about Election Day itself and prefer to avoid it if possible, though for some of us Zooming in from outside NY it’s not. We talked about Trump’s rudeness at the 60 Minutes interview and Pence’s COVID infected staff, and the super spreader events that were the campaign rallies and we talked about the second Borat movie and how it caught out Giuliani. Definitely, current events were the main topic of conversation, and cause for anxiety among us. We again talked about the uptick in crime in the city, and how since I helped bring the Guardian Angels to some of our uptown neighborhoods one our regulars has not only joined the group but become a patrol leader for them, which brought us some collective pride. We did lighten up a bit with memories of Sea Monkeys, those little dried shrimp sold on the back of ancient comic books, and which of us had fallen for the scam that these tiny creepy-crawlies were at all anthropomorphic, which they were definitely not, and one of us proudly shared some memories of her WWII hero grandfather who walked with a cane from a war wound, but never let it get him down, and was tough as nails with anyone who might cross him. We ended by talking a bit about Harry & Meghan and agreeing that although they pop up in the news having moved to our shores we really didn’t care all that much about the topic, we have way too much going on in our own country right now to waste much mind space on another country’s gossip.
Sunday October 18 & Sunday October 25 – Pre Debate & Pre Halloween Grooves
