by Reg Green (March 2025)
Some months ago I wrote about seeing a bald old man in a convertible with his passenger’s luscious red hair blowing in the wind and how it aroused an intense sense of injustice in me but that, when I got a second look, it turned out to be a young man in a skull cap with a golden retriever.
I went through a similar experience watching The Postman Always Rings Twice on Turner Classic Movies recently, a movie that, when I saw it as a young blood, was an almost unbearable story of two passionate lovers so thwarted by her irritating old husband that they planned to murder him. I wracked my brain to think of ways to help them.
Seeing it again, decades later, it seemed such a tasteless tale that even Lana Turner in designer shorts couldn’t rescue it. By contrast, I realized what an interesting and amusing man the husband was.
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Reg Green is an economics journalist who was born in England and worked for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Times of London. He emigrated to the US in 1970. His books include The Nicholas Effect and his website is nicholasgreen.org.
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4 Responses
With age comes wisdom — and this is yet another instance of the rule, LOL!
Not always.
So, how did a golden retriever get luscious red hair? Are you certain it wasn’t an Irish setter? A lovely blonde French neighbor or ours had an Afghan and used to drive it around. Guys would see two mops of blonde hair blowin’ in the wind and pull alongside to suffer fallen-face syndrome as they saw the passenger. My standard joke was “The driver’s a dish but the other one is a real dog. Rimshot!
To Old Sceptic,
You’re probably right about the dog. We were never formally introduced.