Two Things that Made Me Laugh

Thursday Lunch

I spent lunch Thursday with Friends # 0.5, 8, 2, and 4, and they are just funny people. Just sitting around saying stuff:

a. I was saying that Gary banned me from making pasta from scratch. Caroline envisioned pasta made with a hint of chocolate, then Libby upped it to a chocolate filled ravioli, then the others added caramel and a hazelnut or pecan. Deep fried. With powdered sugar. They now want to have a GNO in which we make “turtle ravioli.”

b. We were debating what the C and CE keys do on a calculator. I pulled out my iPhone and then to the calculator app. No C or CE key.

Libby took the phone out of my hands. “Watch,” she said significantly, and turned the iPhone sideways.

You would think she’d invented turtle ravioli the way we reacted. GASPS. Ooooh! Ahhh! Go to every app and turn it sideways! (Nothing else compared.)

c.Robin is looking for a new dry cleaner. Why? “I went to the dry cleaner off Caulk’s Hill and there was this chicken there and … ” She went on while I flashed back to the last episode of M*A*S*H. I pictured an Asian woman with a chicken and tried to reconcile that with the conversation Robin evidently had with the chicken, which she was now relating. Someone had lost the chicken’s jacket.

“Wait,” I said, “Show of hands, who else thought there was a chicken there, instead of a ‘chick in there.’” (About everyone.)

Friday afternoon

I was listening to the NPR fundraiser on the way home form work. At 5:20 p.m. they said “In the next 40 minutes all we need is $11,134 dollars in pledges to meet our goal.” I laugh heartily and told my NPR station they were screwed.

I really only mention that because I want to link you to the Pledge Drive Drinking Game.