Writing is like being able to put life into a snow globe. It takes the things that are too big and scary and reduces them into a form that I can put away when I want and look at from a distance. It also takes all that’s good in life and captures it into something I can take out when I want and look at close up and keep forever. It makes the bad things into something I can hold…and the good things into something I can hold onto. Both help so much that I need that little souvenir of life.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Senior Sex(less) and the City: More Single Women!

Chatty Cathy
I got stuck next to her during a single’s event where very few people showed up. Thing I learned : don‘t ever, ever sit on the end at a single’s event where you know no one, because on the end, you might only have one person seated next to you, and then you’re trapped.

“…cousin, who’s friend is a professional hairdresser….”
“…next house had only two bedrooms….”
“…was a drunk, and so was his brother….”
“…vet. So I picked up Fluffy….”
“…go, ‘No way!’ And she goes, ‘yuh huh,’ and….”
“…Wicked Witch of the West! No kidding…."

I kept zoning out and coming to, wondering things like how she breathed and so forth, so that I just heard fragments. It didn’t matter, because there wasn’t enough of a pause to allow me to respond, anyway:

“…shift starts at 9:00, but I always….”
“…from cirrhosis of the liver….”
“…houses down? Or was it three….? Anyway, he goes….”
“…barked. It was the cutest thing! So….”

I finally got “sick” and had to leave. She probably still hasn’t noticed.

From Modern Family:

Phil [about their son, Luke]: He’s one of those kids you get him a gift and all he wants to do is play with the box.
Claire: One year we just got him a box, a really nice box.
Phil: And we made the mistake of putting it in a gift bag.
Claire: So he played with the gift bag.
Phil: We can’t get it right.

9 comments:

  1. LOL, those kind of people are like a freak of nature, they don't require air. :) And yes she noticed, she called here looking for you. :D
    Jules @ Trying To Get Over The Rainbow

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  2. Jules, you never cease to make me laugh loudest when I need it most. :)

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  3. Gosh, sometimes I wonder about you fun-lovin' single folks, and get a little envious.

    And then sometimes I'm quite content...

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  4. Haha! I sat next to her on a plane once!

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  5. Good advice, Tammy! Wear a hearing aid next time and keep saying, What?'

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  6. Love the Modern Family scene.

    Too bad someone didn't cut Chatty Cathy's string. She's probably still jabbering away.

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  7. That was great! Funny! You poor thing...

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  8. Story idea: The woman who talked herself to death?

    Pat
    www.critteralley.blogspot.com

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