Leave the gun take the cannoli (9)

The Number One rule for volunteering at Movie Night;   if you’re late you have to tell a joke.  Of course, I conveniently leave this out of the  e-mails that I send to my  New York Cares crew, just in case I’m the one who is stuck in the subway at 6:45.    

This month’s  volunteers, Boris, Julie C., Maria and Stacy, arrived in party mode.   They  embraced my buddies as if we were all old friends.    We started the night with a documentary about RUN DMC.    Clearly, not the kind of music any of the volunteers would download, but we all got caught up in the enthusiasm of the clients.  As soon as the credits rolled,  I yelled out “Who remembers where they were the first time they heard RUN DMC?  and my volunteers just naturally attracted clusters of  clients ready to reminisce about old school days.   It turned out that most of  us are Aerosmith fans.    Under the assumption that everyone knew the words to “Walk This Way”  we attempted a sing- a – long.   This proved to be a new way to torture volunteers and its more fun than putting them on the spot for a corny joke.

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