Good Lord, That’s Me!

This is a true story:

A Michigan woman and her family were vacationing in a small New England town — the same town that actor Paul Newman often vacationed in. One Sunday morning, the woman got up early to take a long walk. As she arrived home after a five-mile hike, she suddenly was seized with a not-to-be-denied craving for a double-dip chocolate ice cream cone. Consequently, she hopped into the family car, drove into the center of town, and went straight to the combination bakery/ice-cream parlor. The only other customer in the store was film star Paul Newman, sitting at the counter having a doughnut and coffee. The woman’s heart skipped a beat or two as her eyes made contact with the celebrity’s baby-blue eyes. Newman nodded graciously and the star-struck woman smiled demurely. then she quickly composed herself. “You’re a happily married woman with three children,” she said to herself, “a mature forty-five-year-old, not a teenybopper.” The store clerk filled her order…