#1: Scene: Overheard at the bank on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove:
—–Customer: Ocean Grove has a new nickname.
—–Teller: What is it?
—–Customer: Ocean Granola—-flakes and nuts.
#2 Scene: Wegmans bagel bakery
—-Bagel baker to Paul: Inquiring about the holidays: When is Bagel Day?
—-Me: What?
—-Baker: You know, the day when the Jewish customers eat lots of bagels
—-Me. You must mean the “break the fast after sundown on Yom Kippur.”
—-Baker: Yes, that’s it.
—-Me: It’s mostly dairy foods like bagels, lox (smoked salmon), salads, whitefish, cream cheese, and other special foods.
HAGEVATRON Folk music from Israel (in Hebrew) “Oseh Shalom”—- a prayer for peace.