Prior to attending Fine Girl’s retirement party I met up with Sleepless, Ice Cream Man and Standard Time for a little lunch. Ice Cream Man was completely consumed with his phone. “What do you have going on over there?” Standard Time asked. “Are you playing Words with Friends?” Sleepless asked. “This lunch will not take off if you keep playing that game,” I advised him. He looked up from his phone and said, “Mr. Baldwin is an American Treasure.”
Like Alec, Fine Girl is an American Treasure. Unlike the Save America’s Treasures program, which lost it’s funding in 2010 and will most likely not be re-established, her ‘funding’ will be re-established the day after her last day of work and she will be saved. As we were celebrating her retirement she raised her glass and made a toast, “Thanks to the taxpayers for paying me for the last 33 years and who will continue to pay me in retirement.” I can definitely raise my glass to this American Treasure.
As we reminisced about her work, one of the girls shared a story about a case involving a horse, “Beastiality was really hot in the ’80s.” “Yes, it was,” Fine Girl concurred. “Was it?” I asked. I didn’t know Fine Girl in the ’80s and I don’t remember beastiality being really popular. I do remember the movie Working Girl. A romantic comedy about a girl (Melanie Griffith) who gets a chance to be her boss for a little while. Other stars in the show who were featured and mentioned by name in the trailer: Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford and Geena Davis. The star who wasn’t mentioned or featured? None other than the American Treasure Alec Baldwin.