Mambo Taxi

Rob and Flo, the lawyers up on Avondale, tell a story about cooking down tomatoes over a wood fire one Sunday in September. Apparently this is an Italian thing. So it's sunny and quiet and lovely and very civilized, cooking down the tomatoes, and all of a sudden Harry (who died last year, in the house across from us) throws open his bedroom window and yells down, "Quit chopping wood, ya dang fool!" Harry was a great guy. Sometimes when I see Rob and Flo I yell that, just to see them laugh: "Quit chopping wood, ya dang fools!