Annie got her gun rather cheaply
“Where did you get your gun?” a friend asked Peggy Mollin at Roxbury Park in Beverly Hills.
A park ranger, bicycling nearby, did a double take. But he seemed relieved when Mollin responded, “At the 99-Cent Store.”
Mollin and her friend are members of Adrienne Omansky’s acting class for seniors, and were holding their Oktoberfest celebration. The performers were dressed as their favorite celebrities, and Mollin came as Annie Oakley. The class, by the way, is free. Information: (323) 900-3500.
Halloween leftovers: Mary Sue Owen of L.A. noticed that a Washington Mutual bank in the Mid-Wilshire district was on guard against any persons who might be seeking someone else’s cash for their goodie bags.
Maximilian Berktold of West Covina, meanwhile, wanted to share an appropriately spooky set of signs he noticed a few years ago in Glendale (see photos).
Has he been getting a bad rap all these centuries? On my Blue Line run Halloween afternoon, a man with a devil’s pitchfork sticking out of his shopping bag thoughtfully informed another passenger that she could be fined for eating on the train.
OK, no jokes, please: Harry Love found a lawyer with an eye-catching name in Nova Scotia (see photo).
Unrelated item! In Santa Claus, Ind., Florene Hardwich-Dick pointed out, the polling booth isn’t the only place where residents can indicate what political party they support (see photo).
Only in Beverly Hills: Judy Cooper of West L.A. overheard this exchange at a farmers’ market in that fabled city:
Shopper: “How’s the corn?”
Vendor: “It’s very good.”
Shopper: “Is it sweet?”
Vendor: “Oh yeah, it’s real sweet.”
Shopper: “I certainly hope so. I got some corn at the market the other day and it tasted like it was 100 years old. It was so bad I had to give it to my housekeeper.”
miscelLAny: “What scares you?” was the question in a man-on-the-street poll conducted by the Seal Beach Sun. One respondent said it’s the feeling he gets when he forks over a $20 bill for six gallons of gas and “I get back $6 and six cents.”
What I find much scarier was the situation last summer when you could give a clerk $20 for six gallons of gas and get back no dollars and no cents.
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