Oops, Chicken, and an Overshare
September 27, 2008Woo Hoo, I made it home. I am a little wore out and ready hang out with my wife and for a good nights sleep in my own bed. Oh the way home I had a real DUH moment. I stopped at a New York Thruway rest stop today and when I came back out to get into my car I attempted to get in with someone else………and they were still in the car! Tried to get right in the drivers seat. I said “oh! Sorry.” I didn’t sit on anybody, but almost. Dropped my head and proceeded to the my car (parked right next to theirs). Got in and acted like I was checking something on my phone until they left. OK, in my defense I am in a rental car and they were in a similar car, theirs was a black Saturn small SUV, I was in a dark gray ford small SUV. And it was raining, so it is possible rain was in my eyes……OK I am just stupid.
Chicken-I am glad to be home with my wife. We were going to go out to dinner tonight. I had no desire to go out, as I have been on the road for almost a month, so I am ready just to be home. J didn’t want to cook (I don’t blame her) so I said we could go out to our favorite Thai/sushi place (I get Thai my wife gets sushi). Well we go in and there is a 20 minute wait. Not that bad I know but J is STARVING so 20 mins won’t cut it. We are deciding where to do when we spot a KFC nearby (the one fast food joint). We both get meals but J says she needs more food, so she orders an extra leg (I did ask “really, you need another piece of chicken”). Well we order our food and they don’t have enough chicken to get and extra piece to J (6 mins they tell us. I could go on a rant here about how I have bad luck and this isn’t even close to the first time I have been told at KFC that “we are out of chicken”). I say fine we will eat there and wait. So we go eat our chicken and when we are almost done I go get the extra leg, I bring it to the table. J looks at the chicken, looks at me, looks at the chicken, looks at me. She smiles an says “Want to split it?” I shake my head and she says “ooo, maybe you should just eat the whole thing. I had to laugh. We split it.
Overshare – we have a very cute grocery store near our house (a CO-OP) and the people who work there are from the neighborhood and the checkers are all older ladies and a lot of the customers are old people from the neighborhood. Well we are waiting to check out an 80 year old man is having a discussion about coronary disease, blocked arteries……of whatever, and now picture this, the checkout lady is a 70 year old lady wearing a white 1980′s fat aerobics headband (no idea why she had a headband, she wasn’t holing back hair). Well I walk over to the community bulletin board. Well my wife walks out and says “did you hear that…..the checkout lady was talking about the fact she had a perforated colon, and then she looked at me and smiled”. Now there are a lot of things I don’t want to know about my checkout personnel, and the status or recent damage/repair of their colon is probably near the top of the list because of what that means. Now I am going to think every time I see this lady “I hope her colon holds up”.
None of the is particularly funny but it is to me because I am home laughing with my wife. We laugh together a lot about just regular stuff and I miss that when I am on the road. Good to be home!
this is hilarious!!!! my eyes are watering… we were having a discussion about why is it that checkers are so damn chatty? and why do they have to assess everything you buy these days, but sharing their colon’s medical history is just precious! i also had kucky fry for dinner this evening…. new original strips, no legs for me!