Saturday, August 20, 2011

So.. what did you do today?

OH MY GOD! It's official.. I am MIDDLE AGED!! No, not in calendar years, so-to-speak, but it's true, it has happened. I am, right now, as we "speak", eating ACTIVIA!! Dear Lord.. I am eating yogurt with special pro-biotics in it to help "Regulate Your Digestive System" Yep, yogurt to keep me from having gas pains and having to poo multiple times after 4 PM. As I spoon each mouthful into my middle-aged body, all I can think about is Jaime Curtis talking about IBS and pooping. Like she's standing here beside me talking me through each bite. Gross. But, it is considerably cheaper than the other probiotic supplement that I was taking, which was over a dollar a day!! This stuff is only about 50 cents a container, and if it actually works, I guess it's worth the annoying theme music and creepiness factor. Ahh, well, WTF ever.

So I took my son to get his hair cut the other night, and as I was parking the car in front of the "macho sport dude's salon chain", there was a lovely rainbow in the sky. (See fig. A)

                                                                             (Fig. A)

So I took a picture (Again, see Fig. A) because we have not had ANY rain here in so many moons I have forgotten what it is like to have rain. So naturally, I was thinking, "Ok, there's the rainbow, but where's the RAIN??" Hence the need to photograph this anomally.
So then I head into the "macho sport dude's salon chain" to wait for my son to finished getting shorn, and one of the other ladies in the reception area (who was also with a young child-like boy person in need of sheering) commented on the weird rainbow but no rain phenomenon I had just witnessed myself. The following is a dramatization of the events that followed:

Lady: "So there's a rainbow out there, but no rain. Weird, huh?"

Me: "Yeah, I know, right? Is it supposed to rain at all tonight?" (I had to ask, because I don't watch the news, or the weather, EVER, so I really didn't know)

Lady: "Well, I was checking my weather-cast ap <indicates cell phone> and it said no chance of percipitation"

Nosey evesdropping salon employee: "Yeah? Do you really NEED percipitation for it to rain?"

I SWEAR TO GOD!! She said that! The Lady and I just exchanged a glance, kind of a "did that idiot just say that out-loud" look, and I paid for my son's haircut and left before I could say something tacky. How exactly does one grow up in the United States without knowing that the very definition of percipitation includes the word RAIN. And vice-versa. Dorkfish!

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