Reality stars I fear your light is fading. You all have the same drama, the same tears, the same arrogance, and the same metaphor. "Oh what a ride this is," "It's just been a roller coaster of emotions," "It's a constant up and down ride." In the South, we're known for colloquialisms that no one ever really uses. Here are some ideas to express the tumult you experience during these tragic, overexpensed free rides to fame you get.
1) I felt like a frog romping blindly in the pond. Some days there's a lilly pad waiting for me, some days there's not.
2) It's like being a bullet zipping through the open landscape of the plantation until you run smack dab into a willow tree.
3) It's like having a mason jar full of rich molasses. You don't know when it will be savory or when it will stick you and hold you down.
4) I never imagined I'd feel like any day someone could pull a wood slat out from under my bed frame.
5) It was like being tea sat out on the front porch under the sweltering sun until I was pulled in and sweetened.
6) It was like being a crawdad resting lazily in a stream. You never knew whether you'd be free or have your brains sucked out when some kid lifted the rock.
7) This experience was as altering as the hemline on Blanche Devereaux's skirts.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Water People
I've never waited a table. You wouldn't want me to. But I imagine that waiters have their own lingo and codes. My boyfriend and I were on the receiving end of what could only be the unfavorable type of customer at an expensive restaurant, the--we'll just be having water customer. It's not that one meal at M&S was out of our league, especially since it was lunch. It wasn't that soup and salad was all we could afford. If anything, the waiter could have had a bigger tip because we weren't spending as much as we're used to on dining out. Needless to say after being ignored--Nobel Prize winner Weisel says indifference is worse than being treated with anger--and complimentary bread deprived, we did not leave a tip.
So here it is now--if people order water on a Saturday afternoon it might just be because they're hung over and saving room for a friend's pasta bolognese later.
So here it is now--if people order water on a Saturday afternoon it might just be because they're hung over and saving room for a friend's pasta bolognese later.