@north,
On a New Year 's Day, in the 1980s,
I was visiting a couple of ladies,
who decided to attend the movies,
a few blocks away, in Manhattan.
We passed a fenced-in construction site, on the way.
An Irish looking lad with
red hair emerged
from the wooden fence. He asked for a quarter.
I sent the ladies on ahead to the near-by theater.
I gave him a
$5 bill.
He was surprized n exultant.
I said: " There 's something that I want u to
DO."
He asked: " What 's that? "
pause. . . " Have a very
HAPPY New Year."
He became
jubilant and thankful; calling down Divine blessings upon me.
David