Morris is hungry for theater. Gertie is hungry, well, for pastrami?
Each week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about. This week’s photo is:
PHOTO PROMPT ©Dale Rogerson
Gertie and Morris On Stage
Gertie, why are you so upset?
You know why, Morris.
I never get anything right with you, Gertie.
You’d get it right if you’d listen.
Listen, shmishen. I heard you.
What did you hear, Morris?
You said while we’re in New York you wanted to go to the stage.
I said I wanted to eat at the Stage.
So we’ll go to the concession stand. I’ll buy you something.
Oy, Morris. I wanted to eat at the Stage Deli*, not the concession stand at some cut-rate
play you got half price tickets for on a Wednesday afternoon, you schlep!!!!
– Randy Mazie
* The Stage Deli, once a world-famous Jewish delicatessen and home to many celebrities, like so many Jewish delicatessens, sadly, closed November 2012.
Gertie will actually have to settle for Katz’s deli. Which, on the whole, is pretty good, too.
The Writer's Village 
Guess she just wants it to be perfect – doesn’t make for a relaxing holiday though!
Nothing is relaxed in this marriage.
Thanks for commenting.
Randy
We hear what we want to hear, sometimes…. I swear!
What’s that you said?
LOL
good travels…
Randy
LOL!!
Well, I’m sure that buying food in the theatre is going to cost at least as much as at a proper delicatessen, if that’s of any comfort to Gertie 🙂
It’s not the money, Gertie says, It’s the food!!!!!
You can’t get a good pastrami sandwich at a concession stand,
But she says she appreciates the thought. Just don’t say a word about this to Morris.
Dear Randy,
I’d most certainly settle for Katz’s. (never went to Stage) Best pastrami sandwiches ever. That coupled with pickled tomatoes and seltzer. YUM!
BTW, one of my many nicknames is Schlepp…one of my best friends is Kvetch. We call ourselves the comedy team of Schlepp and Kvetch it. Oy vey!
Shalom,
Rochelle
Dear Schlepp,
You and your friend sound like my mother and my tanteh (who is actually Getel). They’d both schlep and kvetch, too. In fact, these stories are based on the two of them and other members of my mother’s family.
Shalom back at ya,
Randy
I hope there is a way to get something for both. Maybe the play is good at least
Gertie wants to know if you are a licensed social worker, before you start trying to work out familial relationships.
Boy, is she something, or what?
Thanks for stopping by.
Randy
Sounds like those two were made for each other.
“Ha,” says Gertie, “Finally, a reader with a real brain.”
lol don’t be too sure!
I think this couple wouldn’t know what to talk about if they didn’t bicker 🙂
Gertie, says, “What do you know? Just stay out of this, OK?”
But I say, ” I think you’re right!”
But just don’t tell Gertie that, I usually keep my opinions to myself.
Thanks for stopping by.
Randy
I’m pretty sure I used to date this guy
Gertie asks, “Why’d you give him up? To make my life miserable? Here, take him. I’m going to the Stage and drown my sorrows in some hot pastrami.”
Nice to hear from you Dawn.
Randy