‘I’m from Brooklyn’

That’s what the older woman at the table said. “I remembah the Dahdghas.”

I said, “Do you remember when they won the World Series in 1955?”

“Oh, yeah,” she said. “It was a wondahful time.”

She said she remembered 1957, too.

“All the drivahs were blowin’ their horns. I asked my mother, ‘What’re they doin’?’ She said the Dahdghas were moving to Los Angeles.’ What’d they want to do that for?”

I told her I was a Dodgers fan. A Northeast Texas boy, a Dodgers fan. My father and my older sister were Yankees fans. We had some disagreements.

I’m with the Brooklyn born and raised woman.

“What’d they want to do that for?”