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Rainy Day Women

J. Scott Ridgell
Couple days of rain in old Honolulu and like all good tourists, we did the usual thing and hit a shopping mall which fortunately had a movie theater.   We saw The Iron Lady.  Given that I never cared much for Margaret Thatcher nor Meryl Strep, I entered  with some very low expectations of spending a boring couple of hours.  However, as it usually happens when I keep my expectations to a minimum, I was pleasantly surprised to find that I didn’t mind the 2 hours spent with the M ladies.   On top of that, the actress Alexandra Roach who played the young Maggie, was also very good.  She was not only easy on the eyes but also made me realize that I’ve always been a sucker for gap toothed girls – even those with a conservative bent. 
But superficialities aside, I did discover that Thatcher and I had something in common in that she too grew up in her father’s grocery store and learned her early values in life from that experience.  There are a couple of scenes in the movie where snooty old men negatively refer to her as “a grocer’s daughter.”  Guess she could have done worse. 
Anyway, movie wasn’t bad and of course Meryl was so great in portraying Thatcher that she even had a hard ass like me feeling sorry for the old Maggie in her dotage.   The fact that Maggie and I had something in common in our early lives as grocers’ kids, I hope does not carry thru to any old age similarities with regards to what she’s going thru now.   Re: getting older, I always say that I’m looking forward to looking back.  Just hope that I can remember what it is I’m looking back on.   
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