When he does, I make this request: "Could we just focus on my positive qualities?" That list is a very manageable one.
Then, years after Heart claimed her mother's place as her own cabin, a group led by Heikkila on a tour of family sites showed up at her gate with a request: Could we look around?
"Dad," she had requested, "could we go somewhere cool?" The Third Man met that standard, she concluded, "because it's nice to have drinks that don't taste like they were made in a frat house basement".
They made their way down a table of items being auctioned off for charity, pausing to giggle over a pair of socks printed with green shamrocks, field compliments — "The episodes on 'Girls,' phenomenal" — and oblige requests: "Could we get a wee picture with you?" "Ah!" O'Dowd said, as they came to a signed photograph of the English-Irish boy band One Direction.
It started in April 2005 with a simple one-line email from the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger: could we submit freedom of information requests to ministers to see what letters they have received, and on what subjects, from Prince Charles?
We were never tried, and 20 years later I was informed that we could request our $200 bail money back.
Campers were not allowed in the barn, but we could request our favourite horses and imagine ourselves in relationships with them.
Jennifer asked me if I had a Google Webmaster account so we could request that Google scan the site and give it a clean bill of health.
The reservation agent spoke kindly to me and informed us that we could request pre-boarding in order to wipe down our seat for past nut residue.
If criterion was fulfilled, the item was signed "yes"; if not, the item was signed "no"; if study did not report clearly and we could not request the information from the authors, the item was signed "unknown".
But skip the overly sweet pad Thai; even the wedges of lime we requested couldn't tame the sweetness.
