Since it's Chelsea's wedding today, I have a story as yet untold here...

It's not important, it's just a couple of interesting coincidences...

Many years ago, the groom's grandmother, his mother's mother, came to my practice. She was a very highly regarded artist here in Philadelphia; she was a very bright lady who talked incessantly about her family of which she was quite proud. I happen to treat a fair number of local artists, three of whom are world-famous, and virtually everyone admired her art - unusual, since many of them are, IMO, inordinately condemning of each other. So it was a fair surprise to me that she was held in such high regard, almost universally. She was chronically ill, and talked to anyone who would listen about her condition and her symptoms. She was a good lady who was a terrific conversationalist and so very secure in her position.

Now, since I have to be careful, I will be deliberately vague: there is someone else in the family whom I also treated. I won't say much about this individual except that it was this person to whom I said, at our last visit together, "I would trade twenty so-called Philadelphia celebrities for one normal patient." This person may or may not be attending the wedding, I understand.

And I'm not referring to Steven Spielberg, although I have a Philly connection to him too, and a great story as well...Funny!

For another time...

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One of my patients is a dealer in making custom-somethings - one day, a disheveled guy, wearing a baseball cap walks into his store, and says to him, (paraphrasing), "I just went down the street to (this very fancy men's store- now out o' business) and neither of the two men there would wait on me." So my guy says to him (and he really is a classy guy - does work for Hollywood stars and pro athletes and is charming and really savvy), what may I do for you sir?" The guy tells him he wants two dozen (@$400 apiece). Takes out an Amex card, a Centurion one, and the name engraved upon it was the great director's.

I then said to my guy in the chair, "The first thing I learned in practice is that you never judge ANYONE by dress or deportment."

my husband went into a mercedes dealer. he was dressed casual and they ignored him. a few weeks later her returned in a suit. they were all over him. when he said he couldn't afford the car the salesman (with his accent) said to him "just sell some of your gold". lol

many places go out of business...

gold setting. I noticed me getting alot more attention in stores.

I observed a white woman in reaction to a tall black man also in the elevator..nervously pulling her purse close and closer to her, checking if her purse zip was closed..I just glared and rolled my eyes at the woman, she was obviously to the fact that the gentleman in question I recognized to be a ball player that had recently signed a multi-million deal..