I also think this is one of those programs (and there were SO many of them on the RMT) where at story\'s end you could say \"and the moral of the story is...\"

If I were going to try I\'d guess the moral of this story is...\"The past is over and gone...live for the future\". (Strangely, my own Mom told me just yesterday of some saying like \"If you live in the past you\'ll forget about the present\", which would be equally applicable here.

The main character in the story is voiced by the talented Howard DaSilva, who (if a report I\'ve read on the Web is correct) may have been one of the few if not only RMT players to have been at one time \"blacklisted\" as a communist. No matter his political beliefs he turns in a strong performance as a daydreaming executive of a company that\'s in deep financial trouble. I forget the actress\' name who plays his wife but I always think she sounds like original Saturday Night Live alumni Jane Curtin...(it won\'t be my first choice, but if I get the opportunity I\'ll going to put as this as a dynamite CBS RMT play called \"The house on Chimney Pot Lane\", where this same Jane Curtin-sounding actress had a great set of roles). His wife is also an executive with their firm yet, unlike her husband, she sees both the gravity of their situation and a possible way out.

Friends, I\'ve been there where I was such a daydreamer I was blinded to reality. DaSilva\'s character is there, unfortunately for him, and as a result his marriage isn\'t in that good of a shape, either. He wants to restore the latter, however, and is convinced he can do so if he takes his wife away from the present and back to their college days when he was a happy, carefree, dashing young man. In fact, he\'s able to do so himself, going back to a bar owned by a friend of his during the college days who was killed in World War II. When he goes to the bar it\'s a lively happy place, filled with music, booze and good times, and it\'s a great place for him to run away from his current troubles.

Problem is, whenever he hires a taxi to take him there he has to put up with taxi drivers who raise their eyebrows at him because the building where the \"bar\" is an abandoned, broken, destined-for-demolition wreck of a structure. And the taxi drivers don\'t know what he\'s going through well enough to tell him: \"Dude, all those happy people from your past you see in that bar? Today they\'re all dead...\"

EXCELLENT choice for a show... I hope as many people as possible hear the program and live looking ahead of rather than behind them.<br>