I don't usually know just what to say to people who ask me how things are going or anything along those lines. I'm no good at summarizing neatly either my interior or exterior life.
But I think I have the perfect way to describe my life, both interior and exterior, as it is now, the next time I am asked. I'm just going to say "Please continue to hold for the next available representative" and then start singing "Ricki Don't Lose That Number" for a minute, then say "please continue to hold for the next available representative", then Steely Dan their ass again, then "please continue blah blah", then Steely with the Dan, "please", Dan, "please", Don't Lose that Number, "continue", maybe bust out with Reelin' in the Years, "hold" motherfucker, maybe Hey Nineteen fer a minute, etc.
And then I tell them I've been struggling with the nagging feeling that there is no "next available representative".
I am down wid dat. I have some co-workers who pin me down daily for the "how are you" interrogation. I know that the question is considered polite, but it translates in my brain as an actual request for information, and then the clutch drops and they wonder why I am aloof.
Tho, in lighter moods, I answer "big as a house and twice as nasty" or "18 time world champion".
Posted by: Titivil at 21.12.04 17:43