TONY CAPUTO’S MARKET & DELI – Salt Lake City, Utah
Most of us know someone like Lucy Van Pelt, the irascible, bossy, highly opinionated diva in the syndicated Peanuts comic strip. Since her debut in 1952, Lucy has been the perpetrator of two long-running gags. One involves her holding the football (ostensibly so that Charlie Brown can kick a field goal or extra point) and pulling the ball away because she doesn’t want Charlie Brown to get it dirty. The second gag parodies the lemonade stand operated by many young children under spacious skies. Instead of a lemonade stand, she operates a psychiatric booth where she offers advice and psychoanalysis for a nickel. The “advice” is often worthless though on occasion, she actually dispenses a pearl of wisdom. Lucy…