My darling friend R calls me at 6:30 Thursday evening:

R: Do you want to have dinner tonight?

Me: No, I can’t I’m going to yoga in 30 minutes.

…Chattychattychatwordswordswordschattychattychat…

…5, 10 minutes later…

Me: Hmmm…maybe I should skip yoga and have dinner with you.

R: Well here’s the thing. My boss gave me two tickets to see The Color Purple tonight. And BeBe Winans [one of the headliners] gave him the tickets so the seats are amazing. Plus the show is closing soon so I was wondering if you wanted to do that?

Me: WHAT? Why didn’t you open with that? I mean I look scruffy and homeless because I’m about to go to yoga and all…but forget yoga I want to hear sing BeBe sing!

R: Well, you seemed committed to going to yoga and I didn’t want you to have to choose and then feel bad.

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MORAL OF THE STORY: two FREE tickets—worth 120 dollars each—given by the headliner himself—with amazing seats—to a closing Broadway musical TRUMPS doing Hatha Yoga 105 degree heat for 90 minutes ANYDAY. In elidia’s book anyway. So always open with that.

Note i: I use to sing WITH BeBe back in the day with my choir in Los Angeles.
Note ii: That does not mean I sing LIKE BeBe. Truth be told, I was placed in the middle/back so my voice could “blend”.
Note: iii: The musical made my heart smile.