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Speaking of “Sopranos” endings, I couldn’t resist musing about
what disappointments these items might have wrought.
In the media, we’ve been overly conditioned to surprise endings.
A decade ago, while crossing the Atlantic by ocean liner, Alvy
Singer, leaning on a deck rail, raised his hand to point at a
porpoise.
As he did so, a valuable diamond ring slipped from his finger and
fell into the sea.
Last month Singer attended a formal seafood banquet in Manhattan
He suddenly bit down on something hard.
It turned out to be a fish bone.
Some years ago at a circus parade a small boy sneaked up behind an
elephant and pinched him. The incident left his mind as he grew to
manhood.
Then one day at the zoo, that same elephant happened to see a man in
front of his cage.
But didn’t recognize him.
He remembered being pinched, all right, but he hadn’t seen who did
it.
A psychology student in Los Angeles rented out her spare room to a
carpenter.
As a class research project, she nagged him constantly to study his
reactions.
After weeks of needling, working in the kitchen, and holding a large
buzz saw, the man snapped.
And moved out.
Two sisters who had not seen each other for thirty years finally
located
each other.
Born in Sweden, Helga and Olga Svensen had been placed in different
orphanages and lost touch.
In 1970, Helga came to the United States, and opened a boutique.
Last week, out-of-the blue, Olga telephoned from Stockholm. To to
say she was coming over.
Nothing special was planned.
When Miles Monroe was a boy, he carved his initials on a turtle’s
shell during the usual family vacation in Maine.
He thought no more about it until this year, when on holiday in
Maine
Miles happened to run across a turtle on a walking tour in the
woods.
He examined it carefully, but couldn’t find any initials.
Two years ago when Sidney Falco and wife, after touring Alaska
accidentally left their dog “ Buttons” behind in Juneau.
They returned to their home in Brooklyn, giving up the pet for lost.
Last week, Falco got up early one morning and looked out on his
front
Doorstep, and there was the New York Times.
In Chicago, a man leaned out of apartment window to complain about
noise in an upstairs apartment.
As he shouted, he saw a woman fall from a broken window five floors
up.
He made a grab but it was too late.
At least, they didn’t leave you hanging.
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Gene Farinet, an award winning veteran newsman, spent much of his long
career at NBC News as a writer and producer working with Frank McGee,
Ed Newman, John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw, covering space, politics
and special projects everywhere in the world.
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MAYBE
YOU WERE EXPECTING?