| Late comment, sorry.But I've always enjoyed the line, and the forced-being-with-it is part of the fun; Instead of reaching FOR the check, he never picks up the tab; The awkwardness, for me, create a picture of someone torque-ing his arm to scramble away from being generous......But I just finished re- reading Mr Sondheim's volumes of Lyrics (with comment). He doesn't like that line either......But I recently watched Ethel Merman in the Call Me Madam DVD, and at the beginning ther narrator says something like Sally Adams arrived in D.C and Said those legendary words, "'ll Take The Check". |
