Most performers you could imagine at age 80. Sinatra, Dean Martin, etc. I cannot imagine or visualize in any way Elvis being 80.
True story. Years ago, I got off work from the midnight shift and went down to the old Civic Auditorium in Jacksonville to get tickets for a pre-season football game between the Falcons and the Bucs. I got there before the window opened and there were a lot of people in line. The ticket window opened and the line started moving slowly. Two women in front of me were talking about how they were going to be late for work. One of the women said she didn't care because she wasn't going to miss this concert. By now we are getting close to the window. When I asked what concert, the woman looked at me like I had crawled out from under a rock and asked me what tickets was I getting. I told her football. She said, "Oh, you could have gone to that window," indicating a second ticket window with no one in line. She then said, "This is the line for tickets to the Elvis concert." I looked and I was about 8th in line for Elvis tickets. I looked at the second ticket window with a bored lady sitting there not selling anything. I thought about what if my wife found out I was this close to the front of the Elvis line and got out of line to buy football tickets. I thought of needing to sleep sometime. I thought of dying slowly and painfully from small amounts of poison my wife put in my supper. Yes, I bought tickets to see Elvis along with my football tickets. Later that morning when I talked on the phone to my wife at her work and told her about the tickets she went berserk. She was actually screaming across the room to her friend, "HELEN, HELEN, HE GOT TICKETS TO SEE ELVIS!
So that's how I accidentally ended up with tickets for an Elvis concert and convinced my wife that, although I might not be a Greek God, I'm probably descended from them.
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