METROPOLITAN DIARY
Extra Ticket
Dear Diary:
It was April 1992, and I had two tickets for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Daniel Barenboim conducting.
The person I had invited to join me was unable to come, so at five minutes before 8 p.m., I did something I had never done before: I stood on the sidewalk outside the hall and held up the extra ticket to see if I could find a taker.
A man approached me, asked for a discount and we completed the transaction.
We sat next to each other, and the rest is history. I had just turned 40, he was 45 and neither of us had been married. We got engaged that August and married in October, 30 years ago last month.
Happy Anniversary, my love.
— Jane Moos Cohen
Dating Game
Dear Diary:
My girlfriend and I were having a cocktail at a restaurant in my East Side neighborhood when a woman I had dated briefly came in and spotted me.
She approached our table. As I greeted her and introduced my companion, she interjected to say that she hadn’t contacted me because she was in a relationship.
I was tongue-tied, but my girlfriend was not.
“So is he,” she quickly replied.
— Herb Fishman
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/nyregion/metropolitan-diary.html
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