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| February 24, 1997 |
Circulation 76 |
Vol. 1, No. 30 |
YAWN: I just had a bright idea
... if you ever want to encode a message without all that
fancy software stuff ... just move your fingers over one
position on the keyboard 'm lrr[ pm yu[omh /// see what
I mean? ... purty cool huh? ... that's about how the weekend
was ... got a call Friday night that my youngest's basketball
picture hadn't turned out ... they were doin' retakes
Saturday mornin' ... got 'im up ... dressed ... hair combed
... we drove up 'cuz the path through the woods was really
muddy 'n we were afraid that a branch'd fall on our heads
since the wind was blowin' so hard ... I dropped 'im off
at the door ... found a parkin' place further away from
the school than my house ... finally got down to where
they were takin' the pictures 'n he told me it wasn't
him but his brother ... time was runnin' out ... I ran
back to the car ... (well, I wished I could run back to
the car ... I walked fast anyway) ... got home ... rousted
the proper victim out of bed ... pushed him through the
house to get ready ... finally got 'im up there in time
... this year we're kind of excited 'bout their basketball
escapades ... they're both on winnin' teams ... not that
losin's that bad ... I mean haven't we heard all our lives
that 'it's not whether you win or lose but how you play
the game that counts'? ... I couldn't agree more ... so
the fact that our boy's teams are playin' the game better
'n anybody else is what counts! ... this is 'specially
good this year 'cuz wifey-poo's best friend's hubby is
a coach for one of the teams ... he's more fun to be around
on Saturday night when he's had a win ... which was 'specially
important this weekend ... we decided to use our coupon
books 'n have a big night out ... nobody was lookin' when
we went in to the restaurant so we cleaned out the mint
bucket ... beats orderin' appetizers ... when we ordered
our dinner the waitress kept tellin' us how the people
who had sat at the table before us had ordered the same
thing ... (a scrumptious shrimp combo ... jes' happened
to be about the same price as our buy one, get one free
limit) ... we did go outside the lines though ... we ordered
drinks that cost money this time ... the cook hassled
the waitress sayin' she'd duplicated the order by accident
... she jes' wouldn't shut up about it ... when she brought
the check it was our turn 'n we told her we were the same
people 'n we'd already paid! ... we cleaned out the freshly
refilled mint bucket on the way out as we ran for the
car ... not content with only one gastronomical event
we decided to have breakfast out yesterday ... for dinner
... somebody'd been watchin' too many ads 'n was obsessin'
over some strange breakfast combination ... somethin'
that was fruity that made you pooty ... I hate it when
you pull up to a restaurant 'n see all kinds of 'help
wanted' signs hangin' in the window ... a definite clue
that this one didn't make the Mobil guide ... the place
was purty empty so we didn't think they'd have any trouble
seatin' our party of 10 ... only problem was there wasn't
nobody to seat us ... we were about to split when they
finally noticed us ... (the boys had takin' to playin'
with the mini-blinds ... we were kind of hard to ignore
with the blinds zippin' up 'n down ... wifey-poo was embarrassed
when the waitress asked me to stop) ... it was fast 'n
good ... contrary to our speculation ... but it was a
little unnerving to be in an almost empty place ... I
acknowledged one of the waiters on the way out ... he
was sittin' outside smokin' ... he unloaded 'bout how
the manager had turned in his 2 weeks notice ... had locked
himself in the office 'n wouldn't help the staff out ...
how 2 people had called in sick 'n they couldn't even
fix the tickets if they were wrong 'cause the manager
had the key to the register 'n wouldn't give it to 'em!
... I tried to remember how much tip we'd left as I backed
away towards the car ... jes' another borin' weekend!
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"People are a lot like movies
- a few are hits, the bulk go to the $2 theater after
a couple of weeks, and the real winners go straight to
video stores." -- Mikey, Thinkin' Too Hard
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Michael T. Rusk. Copyright © 1997 by Michael T. Rusk.
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