Under the heading of MacLean’s last pun….. The airport is jammed. We have just driven from San Jose to
San Francisco. Kathy Broderick, our producer, and the boss of Coach’s Corner gets us a luggage cart.
Where would we be without her? We take a train and it seems to go on forever. We locate the elevators
and check in and then the fun begins for me with security at the airport. Kathy has a nexus and waltzes
thru, MacLean has pre-check and breezes by and I have to fight my way thru. I know I am going to be
body searched which is always pleasant because of my cufflinks and the medal in my braces. I really
believe that this is the lowest form of civilization. There is a well dressed man behind me, I hand him a
tray and he says “thank you, it’s nice to know that manners still exist in this chaos.” Sure enough I am
pulled to the side and lectured and patted down with a body search. You really have to see some of
these guys that do the body searches. I really believe that they get a kick out of body searching people
who are well dressed. No matter, when I am thru this jungle, Ron and Kathy meet me on the other side.
Ron is there smiling, the smug smile on his face, he gets a kick out of seeing me go thru the trials and
tribulations with security. As we sit and wait for out delayed plane, it’s just the start of our 14 hour trip.
Kathy makes the mistake saying when she was a little girl her mom used to do a lot of sewing. And she
had her house broken into and ransacked and they knew it when opening the front door as there were
buttons everywhere. Oh oh I say to myself, this is a killer opening for MacLean. He always has a pun for
people’s misfortunes. For two months I have been enduring his puns, after awhile they get you down. I
now find in retaliation I am as bad as MacLean as we try to top each other. Sure enough MacLean starts
“did your mom come undone?” me “police thought this case was sewn up but it was full of holes”,
MacLean “here I thought you were just a needler”, me “quiet, button up,” Maclean “kidding about this
is unseemly, Me: “sew what, they couldn’t pin it on anyone?” Maclean “well I’ll be darned”, and I say
“we have to go, I am hanging by a thread”, and MacLean says “lets zip it”. Maclean gets the last word
again, he wins.