"That's the way life goes. First your money. Then your clothes."
My grandfather Dewey said this a lot when I was young. I didn't figure out what it meant until I was much older and repeated this in public. My mother promptly scolded me and said not to mention prostitution so flippantly. Yes, that was the light bulb moment for me. Ohhhhhhh. Ewwwww. Why the heck would my grandfather say this??
He also used to quote Shakespeare. Except it wasn't really. Imagine my surprise when a middle school teacher asked the class about Shakespeare...and I realized that Dewey had just been teaching us dirty limericks and calling it Shakespeare.
Oh, he was so much fun!!