Charles also had a more elaborate, practiced line. He'd pick his targets carefully, and seemed to guess right more often then not, but he'd say, "Darlin', you are beautiful. Is someone spoilin' you? I hope someone's spoilin' you ... hey, have you ever been kidknapped, taken to Hawaii for two weeks, spoiled and shown things you only read about before in books? You don't even have to go home to pack, I'll buy you all new shit when we get there."

I watched him deliver this line in a single breath to two different girls, at different times while we were seated on an airplane and the line of other passenegers filed past us getting into the back. I'll bet they both were looking for him after we landed, but he'd poured down several glasses of scotch during the flight and he'd long forgotten them!