Tuesday, January 27, 2026

9 extra floors

 

Another older-couple interview in When Harry Met Sally... - the husband and wife in this interview, telling their story of how they met, they overlap, and talk over each other - it's so funny, and typical....


**  husband:  We were both born in the same hospital...

wife:  In 1921...

husband:  Seven days apart!


wife:  In the same hospital.

husband:  We both grew up - one block away from each other...!

wife:  We lived in tenements -

husband:  ...On the Lower East Side...

wife:  On Delancey Street.


husband:  My family moved to the Bronx

wife:  He lived on Fordham Road...

husband:  Hers moved when she was eleven.

wife:  I lived on 183rd Street.

husband:  For six years, she worked - on the fifth floor, as a nurse...


wife:  I worked for a very prominent neurologist...

husband:  ...Where I had a practice, on the fourteenth floor, the very same building...

wife:  (in a hushed tone) - "We - never - met."

husband:  ...(same hushed tone) - Never (nev-ah) met.

wife:  Can you imagine that?


husband:  You know where we met?  In an elevator...

wife:  I was visiting ...

husband:  In the Ambassador Hotel in Chicago.

wife:  He was on the third floor, I was on the twelfth.


husband:  I rode up nine extra floors, just to keep talking to her. ...(!)


wife (in a tone of dreamy wonderment) - - - "Nine extra floors."



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