silver spoons

Ricky Schroder at the airport in Las Vegas. I was sitting down, nursing my hangover with a bottle of water, some pretzels, and a couple of exedrine, sunglasses on, practically curled up in the fetal postion in my chair, when my husband, who's waiting in line at the ticket counter a few feet away from me, just so happens to glance over his shoulder and - not recognizing right away who's behind him - gives the guy a "what's up" head nod to be personable to a fellow traveler stuck in line, then he does a slow, casual double take - be cool, stay cool - and then stares right at me with a wide-eyed look of shock like "can you believe who is standing behind me?!" I perk up for half a second to confirm that yes, indeed, that is Ricky Schroder, thee Ricky Schroder from Silver Spoons, the show we grew up watching, with his kids, holding a snowboard, standing in line behind my you, can you please shoot me now and put me out of my misery.