"I'm Leaving Because I Can"

How would you like to get a taste of your old bygone stomping grounds, even if just for a few fleeting moments? I’d love to see and hear the old Milton’s or the original Grand Emporium again.

With that in mind, I’ve taken to occasionally setting my clunky digital camera on "movie mode" when I'm out. I hope to capture just a smidgen of the ambiance in current establishments for posterity.

I stopped in at Jardine’s weekly jam session last Saturday afternoon. I started to record a brief video of Gerald Spaits’ bass solo and Paul Smith’s piano, along with a bit of the happy background chatter.

I had no way of knowing that I’d catch this gal uttering what’s become my new catchphrase. "I’m leaving because I can," she declares fifteen seconds in. I’m also a fan of the cheerful waitress who appears at the one minute mark.