"Some Enchanted Evening" Script No. 3
February 14, 2003

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Some enchanted evening
You will see a stranger
You will see a stranger
Across a crowded room ...

Dale Connelly: Some enchanted evening ... sharing stories from our listeners of unlikely romance arising from unexpected circumstances.

This note comes from our listener Lowell, who says:

Jim Ed Poole: She was a teacher. I was a truck driver working for a moving company. She was taking a job in Wausau and I was the lucky moving man.

Some enchanted evening
You will move a stranger
An employment changer
You'll pack her living room.

After my helper and me had a tour of her little apartment, I told Dave ... Dave, I want to marry that girl!

DC: You say that about half of our customers!

JEP: One of these times, I'm going to be right! So we loaded her furniture and made arrangements to meet her in Wausau the next morning for delivery. Dave had intended to go with me, but cancelled at the last second ...

DC: (cough, cough) I've got a thing about Wausau, sorry.

JEP: Leaving me to unload the truck by myself. Diane had a girl friend with her the next morning. We decided that between the three of us we could get her furniture moved in without breaking it into too many pieces.

Beth Gilleland: You'll have to remind me ... who's the customer here?

She's one of a kind
It goes through your mind
By helping unload
She has saved your behind.

JEP: I offered to take them to dinner in exchange for their help with the furniture. We had a lovely time, then went back to her new home and sang songs around her piano 'til the wee hours of the morning.

(sfx: bang bang bang bang)

DC: (muffled) Knock it off ... it's your first day in the building!

BG: (speaking up) Are you with the Welcome Wagon?

JEP: Over the next 10 months we carried on a very cordial correspondence via the United States Postal Service. Then, approximately a year later, I received a letter from Diane asking if I would be interested in moving her back to the Twin Cities.

BG: (writing) I ... will not ... be unloading the truck.

JEP: Which I did. We dated for six months and then got married.

Some enchanted evening
Back and forth from Wausau
Bleak and lonesome Wausau
Transporting furniture.

Her dresser, her art
Her stereo cart.
You lift with your legs
And you fall with your heart.

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