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{Straight From the Heart} *Wonder Woman and the Bus* 4/13/00
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WONDER WOMAN & THE BUS
By: Susan Stevens
In the mid 70's my best friend Patsy and I spent a lot of time together.
Between the two of us, we had 9 children to entertain. The youngest of my 5
sons and 2 daughters was two years older than the older of her 2 daughters.
They were a handful, but they were good kids and we had a lot of fun with
them.
Patsy has a great sense of humor and even though she doesn't think so, she
has a very quick wit. On occasion our humor would get the best of us, but
nothing delighted our children more than when Patsy and I were on the same
wavelength with our humor. I remember two times when our spontaneity caused
more than one eyebrow to go up.
I don't remember if it was the premier season, or if it was just the first
time we had watched Wonder Woman, but I remember the rest of the night well.
The eleven of us were quiet as we watched the show. Then when Lynda Carter
stood in the middle of a room and began to spin around....wow! Almost as
though we'd been programmed to respond, Patsy and I jumped up from the couch
and begin to spin. As you can guess, the metamorphosis didn't work for us,
but the looks on the faces of our kids were worth the try. Some laughed,
some were confused, and others just looked at us like we were crazy. We
loved it.
Another time we were watching television and it was a commercial that got
the best of us. In this commercial, an overweight woman was breathlessly
jogging toward the camera when a bus passed in front of her. On the side of
the bus was some type of weight loss advertisement. When the bus finished
going by the woman was still jogging toward the camera, but she was much,
much thinner. As Patsy and I headed for the door we heard, "Where are you
going?". Turning around to face the curious eyes of our kids we chimed in
unison, "Looking for that bus!!"
Susan Stevens
summr@msn.com
Copyright January 2000
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Susan and Patsy are still best friends today. Both live in Washington
state where Susan is in management for a human resources company,
and Patsy is a ParaPro in her local school district working with learning
challenged children. Susan is the grandmother of 13, and Patsy the
grandmother of 2.
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\_\/\ \ Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live for the Son
\_\/ of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20
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