Thanks to Angie Sullivan, Mr. X haunted my early childhood, a silhouette who lived in the shadows of my bedroom at night. I was a little girl with a big imagination, and in my mind, he was bald and muscle-bound like Mr. Clean, with a short-cropped mustache like Hulk Hogan. Looking [...]
Archive for April, 2007
When You Can Only See My Feet
Posted in high heels, strangers, the ladies' room on April 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Contrary to popular belief, women do not have extended stall-to-stall conversations in the ladies’ room. If they do, they are either drunk or know each other very well. So needless to stay I was a little surprised at Chili’s tonight when the woman in the stall next to mine knocked on the partition [...]
Santa, Born to Ride, Drives a Scion
Posted in Dunkin' Donuts, cars, strangers on April 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
How is it that a happenstance encounter with a complete and total stranger, one whom looks like Santa Clause–or maybe that’s just it, that because he looks like Father Christmas and has an easy laugh, he has the incandescent ability to light up a room and draw people in.
He and Wayne had been buddies [...]
‘In Trouble with the Gas Man’ and ‘Why We Cry at McDonald’s’
Posted in dogs, gas, strangers on April 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Tessa hadn’t paid her gas bill since November. I’m not quite sure what the bill was, exactly, but I know that it would have been a bare minimum of $500 to turn it back on (that $500 is on top of the $400 dollar deposit that is already being put toward the minimum balance).
So. [...]
At Panera, In Good Form
Posted in bitch!, mother/daughter on April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I ran into a high-school friend’s mother at Panera today, and she was in very good form (for her). She stood up at her table and introduced me to her friends, and I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to hug her or not, so I just smiled brightly and tried to be effusive [...]
Saturday Day
Posted in mother/daughter, movies on April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I haven’t had a Saturday off since just before Thanksgiving, and I’m completely serious. Granted, some of my Saturdays have been early morning short shifts, and true, I’ve been something of a homebody of late, rarely going out unless my manager threatens to fire me for not hanging out after work–her way of motivating me [...]
Lips on My Mind
Posted in oklahoma city on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
During the holiday season, one of our seasonal part-timers–a base-head and the almost boyfriend of Crunch/Carrie–told me that if the opportunity ever presented itself, he would kill one of the Lips drummers for what he did to Crunch.
Crunch had toured with the group, and according to Melvin, she’s completely fucked up because of her relationship [...]
