Your twenty-first birthday will come twenty-one years after you are born, no sooner and no later. The Fourth of July celebration will come on the Four...h of July, no sooner and no later. You may have an anticipatory celebration, but it isn’t a Fourth of July celebration. Eighteen years after you are born you gain the right to vote. There are many other things that may actually require patience, especially things in someone else’s control. Often, however, they only appear to require patience.. I think you’re gonna like it.’ ‘Oh?’ Joe took a breath. Here goes. ‘Would you like to go out with me to Santa Rosa tomorrow night?’ ‘What, like, on a date?’ ‘Yeah. A proper date. Dinner and a movie. Or dancing. Would you like to go dancing with me again?’ ‘Um… but, I mean – how come?’ There was that little furrow between her eyes that made him want to soothe all her troubles. Instead of answering right away, though, he held out his hand, and when Leanne took it, he led them to sit on one. Very interesting, but this was not going to help us here. We would obviously have to pick a dress and skirt for her elsewhere.It was when we got our pile of pickings to the till that the trouble started. The collarserve, perhaps in its twenties with one of those painted faces that seemed de rigueur in a swanky clothes shop, stood immaculate behind the till. "This one must ask, sir, for whom the purchases are intended," was delivered in a voice managing to be both servile and disdainful at the. Now in the bigger cities there were the regular theatres where live productions were staged. Reading the paper one night I noticed an ad for a musical revue that was playing at one of them, that featured a famous entertainer named Harry Secombe. I’d often heard him on the radio, and thought he was funny and told Catherine I would like to go. She got excited and went and purchased tickets for the evening show on a Friday night. We talked about what to wear, (It was my way of finding out what was.