But now it was time to settle down and to have a normal job again. So, still bored with accounting, I played my art card and got a job with the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. But so much of the world had changed since all the years I had been away. I was surrounded by celebrities but I hardly knew who any of them were. I remember some crazed woman screaming at me one day demanding to know where her Gold Plates had been moved to. When I asked her why she was so concerned about what was going on in the Rockerfeller Wing she said, "don't you know that I'm Happy Rockerfeller'"
So when the Vatican sent us the cross that Christ had carried I hadn't even been aware that it had ever exsisted. As I stared in amazement I heard the sound of someone coming toward me with the sound of a clanging key. It was a black guy dressed in a very faded looking suite. "How did you get in here,'" I asked
"Oh, I have a key to every space in the Museum," he said.
"Well, you'll have to sign your name on this list. They want a listing of anyone that's in this special gallery with the cross."
"I'm always here, but I'll sign this anyway," he said.
"Yes, you're not, but you're more entertaining than you can imagine," he said.
"Oh. I guess you heard about my not knowing who Dudley Moore was. The poor guy. He seemed so nice, but I never heard of his "Arthur" movie. I've just about been living in the jungle the last few years. They didn't have any "Arthur" movies there, but a woman I had been staying with seemed to be quite amused at the site of two lizards making love on her bedroom wall. I mean who needs "Arthur" when you have that kind of entertainment." I said.
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"I remembered who Tony Randall was. He walked into the office to see one of the paintings that's hidden from the public."
He looked at the painting and then looked at me, and took a deep breath, and said "You're so lucky to be working here and being around all this wonderful art."
I answered, "yes I am, but I'm quite willing to trade jobs."
"So thats it'" he asked.
" Oh , just one more. After several months of talking to her someone mentioned she was the Presidents daughter. And I thought she was so entertained with my sea stories at lunch time. I can't believe I never made the connection."
She would say things like, "my Dad was in the Navy, my Dad was on a PT Boat."
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"I guess its a good thing I'm a Democrat."
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