the tomato slice bigot
Early last June I made what seemed to be endless hauls moving from my old apartment to my newly-bought house. One night, a little after eight, I was returning to my house with one last haul from the apartment for the evening. I was dog tired and, once Hannah reminded me, realized that I was starving, too. There is an A&W
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You know, you should have just said - "tomatoes are bio degradable."
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Yes, possibly not an incredibly classy thing to be seen doing, but not really doing any harm, by any means. Anyway, I just went back and edited the first post to elaborate a bit. :-) After the first "pick that up!" I said "It's a tomato slice" to which I got "So? Get out and pick it up!"
"It's biodegradable."
"Does it really matter?"
"I'm sure there's a bird or a small animal who will thank me later tonight."
"Oh my god, you are just going to leave it there! God, people like YOU . . " then he went off. I can't remember what all he said, but it was kind of funny to see a grown man have this little shit fit, I think he probably rolled out the parenting comment because he knew I thought it was all kind of funny. . .he must have felt, oh, I don't know, IMPOTENT in the face of my amusement. Ahem.
I really regret not having thrown all my garbage out the window though. it would have made a far better story.
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hey congradulations on the house thing.
you need to stay in better touch.
might come out to see you this summer. got martin's wedding to go to... if they can ever nail down a date.
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