I read this on a Senior Moments calendar this morning:
"Walking with a friend one day in New York, Fritz Kreisler, the Vienna-born violinist and composer, passed a large fish market. The fish, mouths open and eyes staring, were arranged in rows like a comatose audience. Kreisler suddenly stopped, looked at them, and snapped out of a senior moment. "Heaven!" he exclaimed to his friend. "That reminds me, I should be playing at a concert!"
Curious, I Googled Kreisler and discovered that he lived from 1875-1962 and died after a couple of car accidents. I don't know who was driving. He started playing before audiences when he was a child.
This may explain why, having seen many many audiences with people staring up at him, possibly with mouths wide open and eyes staring, but hopefully mot comatose, the fish lined up in the market reminded him of a concert commitment.
Poor guy, he should have had a cell phone calendar like mine. Much nicer to look at than dead fish, and it beeps at me a half hour before any scheduled commitment.
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