Her Heart Throb
A true story.....A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small
New England town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.
One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a
brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip chocolate
ice cream cone. She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village
and went
straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.
There was only one other patron in the store: Paul Newman, sitting at the
counter having a doughnut and coffee. The woman's heart skipped a beat as
her eyes made contact with those famous baby-blue eyes. The actor nodded
graciously and the star-struck woman smiled demurely. Pull yourself
together! she chides herself. You're a happily married woman with three
children; you're forty-five years old, not a teenager!
The clerk filled her order and she to ok the double-dip chocolate ice cream
cone in one hand and her change in the other. She went out the door,
avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.
When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of
change---but her other hand was empty. Where's my ice cream cone? Did I
leave it in the store? Back into the shop she went, expecting to see the
cone still in the clerk's hand or in a holder on the counter or something.
But no ice cream cone was in sight.
With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman. His face broke into his
familiar warm, friendly grin and he said to the woman, "You put it in your
purse."
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