Save Sherman

    There was one night Laura and I were at the Allen Bar sitting at a table with someone – I think it was one of the guys from the dorm. There was a pitcher of beer on the table, and out of nowhere, a Sherman doll appeared! He was Sherman from the Professor and Sherman cartoons that were part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Sherman was a bespectacled nerdy student and the Professor was a dog who knew everything and who often took the both them on adventures in the wayback machine - traveling through time and teaching the viewers some twisted history. The Sherman doll on our table was plastic and bendy – like the Gumby and Pokey dolls popular then. We laughed and talked about cartoons for a while.

     And then suddenly, Sherman climbed up the side of the pitcher of beer, and fell inside!

He sank immediately to the bottom, and we screamed, “Save Sherman! Save Sherman!” Someone picked up the pitcher and began to chug the beer – then passed it to the next person at the table who continued to chug, and we kept passing until the beer was all gone and Sherman was saved!

     But wouldn't you know it? As soon as a fresh pitcher of beer arrived at the table, Sherman would fall in again and cries of “Save Sherman” were heard throughout the bar., followed by chugging, claps, and cheers.

      One Sunday evening, after having worked on a molecular biology term paper at the library all weekend, I told LR that I was going to the Allen Bar for a while. I must have known that friends were there because I was not one to walk into a bar all by myself. LR said she'd meet me later, maybe. She was working on papers too.

      Well, I was standing at the bar talking to a couple of classmates when the phone behind the bar rang, and the bartender answered, and then the bartender turned to the crowd and asked, “Is Denise here?”

      Oh my gosh, the phone was for me! But that was Laura's fantasy – to get a phone call at a bar! I took the phone, and it was LR who was calling! How could she let me get a call at a bar before it actually happened to her? And that is how it came to pass that one night a phone call at a bar was for me!

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