A secret revealed: five years ago this summer, my wife and I played hooky and went to State Fair sans children. We were both concerned we would be found out. We ran into John and Sharon at the Budweiser Pavilion. We had a beer together, watched an Elvis impersonator, and laughed. My wife begged them not to post anything online. VG posted here that he had so much fun watching Elvis and being at State Fair, but did not mention us. A fun man, he was.
Furfool shared the following memory of VG with me tonight in a private book of faces message. I don’t think he would mind me sharing it. For the longest time the two had never met in person, even though both were from Milwaukee. I think we all were at the WGA picnic at Lake Wissota in 2009 when we ended up putting faces to names. Here’s what furfool had to say about their last meeting:
“The last time I saw him was last September at Oktoberfest. He came into the dance hall and was standing right next to me. I kept looking at him wondering how long it will take him to look down and see me. I bet it was close to 5 minutes. When he did look down, he got this huge smile on his face. He knew right away who I was even though we hadn’t seen one another In a long time. We had a nice chat for a while before returning to our respective company. You could always count on him to lighten a mood.”
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