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So she takes a little something to make them go away
by anna at 01:59 PM on November 25, 2004
Here's a heartwarming Thanksgiving day tale for your reading pleasure. In colege I dated a homely but sweet girl named Liz. My parents adored her. My mom said she was the kind of girl with whom you could settle down. (She really talks all formal like that.) She might as well have planted the kiss of death on our relationship.
She had a roommate in the dorm named Trish. They were as different as night and day. Liz was shy, Trish outgoing. Liz would smoke pot but that was it. Trish was far more adventurous and would try anything. Liz was kind of dumpy and a brunette. Trish was what you'd call a willowy blonde. Liz was a light sleeper, Trish slept like a dead person. We'd wait for her to start snoring before commencing to fooling around.
Or so we thought. Come Thanksgiving break, we'd broken it off. Back at home Trish called me and asked if I wanted to go to an amusement park. She convinced me to try a little something she'd gotten her hands on. Then it occured to us that we had no money. We headed over to my parents' restaurant to hit them up for cash.
As we sat there my mom peppered me with questions about Liz's whereabouts. Obviously dissapointed she got up and left us there with my dad. Both of us were fighting back laughter as this stuff kicked in. My dad asks what is wrong but his words sound far away. I see Trish holding her face too close too close to his. Her mouth is moving but it takes me a while to realize what she's telling him. Turns out she'd been faking being asleep. She watched it all and made... use of the imagery later. My dad seemed upset to be hearing this. He says, "I think I've heard about enough of this."
As we're leaving I ask her what the hell she was thinking, telling him that. He's my dad, for crying out loud. She says not to worry, he loved it. I'm not so sure.
Now that I am a father to a son, I know she was right. There are times you feel you have to rebuke the boy but deep inside you're going, YES! That's my boy. This is how I felt the time my son drew a yellow card for literally kicking an opponent in his butt. He sensed that the other boy had been toying with him and let him have it. You go, boy.
comments (11)
hmm. a pleasure I'll never know... children.
by LOCKHEED at November 26, 2004 8:08 AM
C'mon, a little bit of garlic powder and some barbecue sauce? Anyone can have the pleasure!
by Jen X at November 26, 2004 9:19 AM
What, is that some kind of Canadian recipe?
by anna at November 26, 2004 9:30 AM
Knowing these two also led me to clasify all people I meet as either Hat People or Non-Hat People. Trish was given to donning whimsical hats. She was flamboyant and indecisive. Bill Clinton: Hat. W: Non-Hat. Clint Eastwood: Non-Hat. Billy Crystal: Hat. Sarah Jessica Parker: Hat. Meg Ryan: Non-Hat. And so forth.
by anna at November 26, 2004 10:00 AM
OKAY. I POSTED something on my BLOG that has NOTHING to do with TRADING or FINANCE. Please comment... it's a lonely blog these days...
www.tradinganddrugs.blogspot.com
by LOCKHEED at November 26, 2004 10:32 AM
Not necessarily a Canadian recipe, but IMO it makes for a good burger. Surely it works well on children?
by Jen X at November 26, 2004 3:15 PM
You mean like, eating them? More on Hat Theory: Hat Movie: The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Non-Hat Movie: Fistful of Dollars.
by anna at November 26, 2004 4:19 PM
Just because it's the holiday's there's not many posts? C'mon BADSAM, it's the commenters that keep you ALIVE and KICKING... Anna, of course is a perpetually good poster... MG is NOWHERE to be SEEN... what happened to EFFENHEIMER? Bad Breakup? Not much of EZY or Linz... I post at least once a day on my Blog... P.S. Is it true that GROVER is ELMO's Uncle? I heard it's an urban myth...
by LOCKHEED at November 26, 2004 7:55 PM
Weekends and holidays are the comment graveyard. And I've never known why. Seems people are more apt to comment when browsing on their company PC.
by anna at November 27, 2004 9:22 AM
NEW updated Post on www.tradinganddrugs.blogspot.com
Woe to you or Earth and Sea...
MG. LOCKHEED DEMANDS a seat on the BSBOT(badsamaritan board of exchange)...
I am more diligent that all of you except for Anna...
by LOCKHEED at November 27, 2004 12:26 PM
Have you ever been to a party or on a date where the witty repartee just never began to flow? This comment thread seems like that.
At the amusement park it was that way with Trish. We were whacked out of our gourds but never really hit it off. Hours later, I asked her why she did that with me. All blase, she's like, "I figured it was easier this way. I saw you watching me watching you two."
by anna at November 27, 2004 4:57 PM