Page 58 - Terri 60 years

H ere Goes – Classic Teresita Maria

- Figura Ti : On Dave Prowse’s 30th birthday Terri and I drank a whole bottle
of Frangelico and proceeded to read Dave Lee’s t-shirt which was a series of comic
strips – in Italian. I learned a lot of Italian that night but all I can remember is Figura
Ti’. Later that same night Terri and I were under the weather from something we
ate I’m sure and the phrase ‘puking for distance’ was born ( or at least it was for
me as I hurled off the back of the Prowse deck). The next day our ribs hurt. To this
day we cannot drink Frangeilco in anything. I can’t even smell it. Ah memories.

- Red Wine: During countless gourmet dinners – back when we still had them
once a month or so – Dave Lee would invariably end up seated beside Terri who
often wore white and looked beautiful in it. Not too much time would pass before
‘shocker’ Dave would spill red wine on Terri’s whiteness. So many times in fact that
Terri took to wearing a variety of plastic rain coats to Gourmet dinner. Shades of
our parents/grandparents in those raincoats and plastic rain booty things..

- The Leafs: Now this is really a George Archer story but in case he doesn’t tell
it… my fi rst time meeting Terri was at a dinner out with the gang at Phoebe’s (I
think ) a sort of uptown chichi restaurant. As everyone knew each other pretty well
and Terri was quite new to the group she may have been feeling a little left out.
George rescued Terri by asking ‘well how about those Leafs Terri’. As I recall it,
Terri handled our outburst of laughter with total class and style, but sadly I cannot
recall her exact response.

- Aussie Gals: Back in our twenties we
partied hard a few nights with these darn
Australian girls who Terri had met on her
globe travels. I recall doing slammers well
into the night a few times at Terri’s fl at (the
term really suits) on Palmer and dragging my
a$$ to work the next day while Terri and the
Aussie Gals looked fresh as daisies.

Terri I can’t believe you’re turning 60, and
still look 30.

BTW your name in Leprechaun is Timid
O’Wacky – I’m not even kidding!

Dave and Mary