Couch 250: An August Couch

1. good lord

2. about colds - I have recently been with 7 people who originally thought it was just summer colds (I went camping and 4 tested and since I got back - my partner has tested positive and 2 other unrelated people) who thought they had colds but it was covid - if that matters to you.

Ugh!
My brother and sil just returned from an Alaskan cruise. Had a great time.
Both tested positive for Covid when they got home.
Cruise ships and hospitals are ginormous Petrie dishes.

I think exhankster and I may be the only two old enough to have seen it not on re-runs. I think anyone watching it now would find it fairly dated - some parts still funny (like any episode with B White in it or Leachman)

My Mother the Car??? I'm trying to imagine what the premise of that show might be and I'm coming up blank.

Covered a lot of therapeutic relationship ground in today's Dr. T session. From handshakes to the fish to R. And I'm feeling generally OK--maybe even good--about it.

What's interesting is that my OCD (partly focused on contamination fears) is actually helping me understand something and not be offended by it. I'd talked to him a few months ago about how in the first session in the new office, I wanted to shake hands at the start, to sort of welcome me to the office. I probably should have mentioned it again closer to the time, but didn't. I guess I just assumed he'd remember.

He seemed confused when I asked him about it at the start of last session, though agreed to do it--felt very awkward though. He said today that he had no recollection of that conversation whatsoever, but believes me that we had it. So he felt put on the spot, as it's not something we normally do (just shake hands at the end). He said it was also that he couldn't wash his hands right after (he'd told me before he normally does after I leave), so he was distracted by his hand not being washed the whole session. He said it wasn't about me, that he thought I wasn't clean or had cooties--he feels that way with shaking anyone's hand.

I actually did understand. I imagine if I didn't have OCD myself, I might have been offended. (Mine is more if I had to eat something with my hands without being able to wash them--if I'm just sitting there, it's fine.) I am glad he told me, though. Should we ever shake hands at the beginning or before he end again, I'll be like, "Go on, go ahead and wash them."

Adventures in Paradise. Two of the best looking guys ever on tv on that show. I swear its been downhill since. Wasnt that Troy Donahue?

ETA - Nope, troy was on Hawaiian Eye. Well you can see why little 8 yr old me got confused!

I think the opening of the show interested me…if I’m remembering right, it featured a large yacht pulling in to a marina..while exotic music was playing.
The actors weren’t Troy Donahue but they were cuuute.

Do you think it will influence how you approach similar situations with Dr. T or others in the future?

James Michener! Kids, he was like Stephen King for baby boomers, but less spooky stuff and more true type stuff. Everybody looked forward to his next book. Didnt he say, if he stayed out of prison until he was 30 he did good? But his stuff didnt age well because there was a lot of "the old archeologist licked his lips at the luscious teenage intern" type stuff.

Eta - Stopdog and i are big fans of F-Troop. The major was also the original Music Man on Broadway, also a favorite musical.

My Mother the Car??? I'm trying to imagine what the premise of that show might be and I'm coming up blank.

:
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“The premise features a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as an antique car, who communicates with him through the car radio.”
Wikipedia says it lasted one season. lol. But I remember it.
It featured Jerry Van Dyke, brother to D. Van Dyke.

Nothing funnier than Mr Ed. I caught the reruns recently - pre covid? - and i was hooked. That and Zorro. I loooooved Zorro. I almost died the episode the tamales lady was on. Lost memories!

My late step-grandfather (my grandmother married him when I was a teen) was named Ed, and we'd refer to him as Mr. Ed. My dad would go "Ohhhh, Wilbur!" in the voice of Mr. Ed (the horse) when we'd talk about him. My dad can be pretty goofy.!