(GK: Garrison Keillor, TR: Tim Russell, SS: Sue Scott, TK: Tom Keith)
....after a word from the Ketchup Advisory Board.
TR: It was a city pretty much like any other city at the end of a long winter, folks out raking the yard and the dog rolling in the grass and kids tossing a ball around in the driveway and the tulips and crocuses coming up and everyone taking a big deep breath and saying, "Yep, it looks like spring's here, all right." And then one year, everybody was too busy to take a deep breath, they were running a little behind, and calling from the car on their cellphones and saying, "Listen, Renee----I'm running late, I'm in the car, on my way to the therapist's and I'm going to have to try to swing by there after the dry cleaner's, in between my book club and Kaitlyn's soccer practice or else after yoga." And getting Renee's voice mail, so after yoga, they checked THEIR voice mail and found a message from Renee saying that she was on her way from the grocery store to the tire place to get the snow tires taken off and then she had to go to school for Fun Day and then get her teeth cleaned but maybe she'd stop by after that, before she meditated, so then they had to call Renee right back and leave a message saying Don't stop by then because I'll probably be picking up Ryan at his soccer practice, and then suddenly they realized they'd forgotten what it was they were going to see Renee about and they pulled over to the side of the road, and stopped and got out, and every car that went by had someone in it talking on a cellphone, someone who was running a little late, and they took a deep breath and smelled the new grass, and they thought, "Hey, maybe we're not getting enough ketchup," so they started using more ketchup, with its natural mellowing agents and pretty soon, everything was back to normal and folks were raking the yard and kids were tossing a ball around and the tulips and crocuses coming up and everybody saying, "Yes sir, it looks like spring's here, all right."
RD: Sure looks like spring's here, another primavera,
Everything is possible, feels like a whole new era
All is peaceful, thanks to ketchup marinara.
GK: Ketchup...for the good times.
RD: Ketchup....ketchup.
A message from the Ketchup Advisory Board.
(c) 2001 by Garrison Keillor