Donna Maurillo, Food For Thought: Lost in the supermarket
01.01.70
A funny thing happened while I was shopping at the Scotts Valley Nob Hill this weekend. There was this British guy searching up and down through the ice cream freezers, muttering, "Vanilla Swiss almond. Vanilla Swiss almond. You'd think they'd make it easy to find."
I offered to help, searching through the myriad flavors, some of which came close, but not quite. Another man came up and started to help with the search. We laughed that, with three adults, we still couldn't find the right flavor. "It's for my stepson," the British man explained. "He was very specific."
Finally he punched into his cellphone and said, "Sweetheart, I've got half the store looking for that ice cream. Are you sure of the name? Oh. It's Haagen-Dazs? Thanks." And there it was, in the middle of all the Haagen-Dazs flavors.
We all chuckled and then commented about the newness of shopping in an American market.
"At least we speak the same language here," I offered.
The Brit shook his head.
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel
55 years for brutal hammer murder
01.01.70
– When 48-year-old Timothy Perkins got up to get 22-year-old Brandon Baker some ice cream from the freezer, the younger man bludgeoned him to death with a hammer.
That act, the unexplained rage-filled betrayal of a friend, netted Baker a 55-year prison sentence Friday in Allen Superior Court on a single charge of murder stemming from the Feb. 12 killing.
Baker pleaded guilty to the charge in October. In exchange for his guilty plea, additional charges of felony murder, robbery, and burglary were dismissed.
Perkins thought of Baker as a friend, said Perkins’ sister, Tara Ault.
“My brother was a good man,” Ault said, tearfully. “He wouldn’t hurt anyone.”
Perkins borrowed money from his parents to help Baker get to Florida to visit his ill mother, Ault said.
“My father drove you to the bus station,” she said, staring straight at Baker. “My parents are not in good health, but you know that. My mother cries every day for the unnecessary loss of her son.”
Source: Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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