Paul Newman

Only women of a certain era will fully appreciate this.... True story.

A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England
town where Paul Newman and his family often visited.

One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. After a
brisk five-mile hike, she decided to treat herself to a double-dip
chocolate ice cream cone.

She hopped in the car, drove to the center of the village and went
straight to the combination bakery/ice cream parlor.

There was only one other patron in the store:

Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee.

The woman's heart skipped a beat as her eyes made contact with those
famous baby-blue eyes.

The actor nodded graciously and the star struck woman smiled demurely.
Pull yourself together! She chides herself. You're a happily married
woman with three children , you're forty-five years old, not a
teenager!

The clerk filled her order and she took the double-dip chocolate ice
cream cone in one hand and her change in the other. Then she went out
the door, avoiding even a glance in Paul Newman's direction.

When she reached her car, she realized that she had a handful of change
but her other hand was empty.

Where's my ice cream cone? Did I leave it in the store? Back into the
shop she went, expecting to see the cone still in the clerk's hand or in
a holder on the counter or something! No ice cream cone was in sight.

With that, she happened to look over at Paul Newman.

His face broke into his familiar warm , friendly grin and he said to the
woman, 'You put it in your purse.'