All Apologies 3261
Friday, January 27, 2006-12:16 A.M.
Good evening from East-Central Ohio, where I worked with Bert "Chili" Challis at the Canal House in Tuscarawas, Ohio. There's no hotels in Tuscarawas, so we're staying in nearby Urichsville. We are a short hop, skip and a jump from the Clark Gable birthplace, and I'd stop tomorrow on the way to Scranton, but frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
It was a good show and the folks at the Canal House treated us well, tossing us extra cash for gas. It was a class gesture, and I believe one that bears acknowledgement. Also, I was offered a little dinner on the house, so I decided to try the award-winning barbecued ribs. I'm not going to tell you that they were good, I'm just going to let the facts speak for themselves...I got rib sauce in my hair. Yeah, they were that good.
This morning when I left Rochester, it was 15 degrees out, with a wind chill of 8. That's butt-ass cold, I don't care who you are or where you come from. I made good time getting down here to Ohio, where it's still cold, and I'm pretty exhausted. Cold weather really whups on me sometimes...I'm at the age where it's starting to get into my bones. I'm ready to really get into some world-class sleep.
But before I sign off, I have to offer up a public apology.
Back in September, Steve Burr and I happened to be staying at the Funny Bone condo in South Bend, Indiana. While Steve was out, I looked in his engagement book that was laying on the coffee table.
This was a heinous invasion of Steve's privacy and was unforgiveable, and I apologize to Steve in this public forum. I was completely out of line.
I could sit here and tell you that my motives were harmless, but that doesn't matter. I invited myself where I wasn't welcome, and it was wrong. Steve and I have been buddies for a long time, but that didn't give me the right to do what I did.
Steve, buddy, I'm totally sorry.
I will accept my lumps like a man. Go ahead and let me have it, people.
Ralph Tetta
Rochester, NY
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