Thanks to my laptop, I’ll confess that I’ve written this blog from some interesting places. My kitchen table is the standard choice of blog writing venues… On vacation, I wrote from my car (don’t panic - I was in the passenger’s seat at the time)… But today marks a historical event. I’m writing this very blog from my master bedroom ensuite bathroom… next to the hole where three hours ago the toilet used to be… a blow-dryer propped against said hole…
You don’t want the details. Trust me on this. Suffice it to say that walking into one’s downstairs laundry room and having a rain shower from the toilet above it wasn’t the BEST way to begin my morning… But what else can one expect after a full-moon lunar eclipse????
Did you get to see the eclipse last night? Beautiful. Apparently it can bring out a bit of craziness in people. Like THIS:
[Deanna in line at a grocery store customer service counter. She certainly WASN’T eavesdropping… just curious, that’s all…]
STRANGER MAN - looks to be mid 40’s. Nicely dressed. Too-long beard. Holding a ziplock bag of unidentifiable material.
CUSTOMER SERVICE LADY- 30-something. Bags under her eyes as if she needed a GIANT Starbucks fix.
Stranger Man: I need to return a roast I bought a couple of days ago.
Customer Service: Oh. What’s the matter with it?
Stranger Man: Well the roast was good. But there was too much fat on it. I brought back the fat.
Customer Service: You cooked the roast? And brought the fat? In that ziplock bag?
Stranger Man(getting impatient): Yes. It had a lot of fat on it. I cut it off and brought it back. I’d like my money back.
It was excruciating to try and hold back the giggle fit that almost burst out of me. In the end, the guy didn’t get his money back, but assured EVERYONE he certainly wouldn’t be buying roasts from that store anymore. Yah. Like they care…
Anyhow. Hope your eclipse was good. And please be thinking of me in this bathroom with my blow-drier… awaiting the plumber…
(sigh)
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