Events involving this person
Bob imagines working downtown and is moved there after being fired
Description
The same Bob, tired of the bumper-to-bumper drive to the RCA display area, spent the ride imagining himself downtown where he had worked for thirteen years; he was the one man in the whole building fired before Christmas, and ended up working downtown two blocks from his old job.
Persons
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
c. 0
Sources
- Source: Believe It In ¶63 (So when he told me this story I said, “Bob, have you forgotten how you would sit next to Mort and when Mort drove for the week you would dream you were going downtown?” Well, where do you think he’s working, downtown within two blocks of where he worked …)
A commuter's daydream leads from RCA dismissal to a better job
Description
Two friends who live together in Eagle Rock and both worked at RCA were at Neville's home for dinner last Sunday night, and one of them, who had been unexpectedly fired from RCA and afterwards found a better job at Unico downtown, realised while asking Neville a question that he had caused it himself by daydreaming, as they commuted the Santa Ana Freeway, of turning off towards downtown L.A.
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- 9 May 1965
- between 1 January 1965 and 9 May 1965
Told
11 May 1965
Sources
- Source: The Art of Imagining ¶2 (Last Sunday night, a couple of friends were home for dinner. I must tell you the story that you may appreciate how this thing works. They both worked at RCA, that is, the show room that RCA had in L.A.)
before 1967
(possible)
Neville met his oldest California friend on the very first day he got off the train in San Francisco; his only earlier friend, Ursala, he had known in New York.
11 November 1967
(probable)
Neville's oldest friend in California, Mort, aged fifty-three, died of a massive heart attack on Saturday; he had dined at Neville's home the week before and Neville had spoken with him the night befo
Mort ignores airport no-smoking signs
Description
His friend Mort would smoke past 'No smoking' signs, insisting they did not say 'positively', and walked right through the airport gate with his cigarette without anyone stopping him.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1971 (possible)
- before 21 June 1971
Told
21 June 1971
Sources
- Source: Secret Imagination ¶23 (And so he would go right through the gate to the airplane, and I would say, “Mort, you cannot smoke in here. You are not supposed to smoke.” “It didn’t say ‘positively.’”)
- Source: The Secret of Imagining (Class Lecture) ¶29 (And here’s Mort, going right through with his cigarette. No one stopped him.)