Belated Thanksgiving Dispatch #2
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oakenguySmall Talk with D's Relatives (or 'Why This Family Will Never Pass for Normal')
Scene: the living room, a bunch of us hanging out waiting for the food to be ready.
Kim: So, exactly why did Linda get thrown out of Nicaragua?
Greg: Didn't she just follow Al when he got thrown out?
Gina: No, wait, I thought it was the other way around.
Chris: Right, didn't she poison somebody? The foreign minister or someone?
Me: What??
Greg (yelling into kitchen): Hey Linda! Why'd you get booted out of Nicaragua?
Linda (entering): Well, that's a funny story. See, the media got me all confused with someone else being kicked out at the same time, and they said *I* was the one accused of trying to poison that Foreign Minister with Benedictine brandy that'd been spiked with lithium. So ever since then my friends keep giving me Benedictine brandy as a gag gift. I've got a closet full of it.
Me: Well, at least they don't keep giving you lithium!
Dead silence. A tumbleweed blows through the room.
Linda: Anyhoo, it's all in my scrapbook. Here, let me get it...(exits)
Susie: You know, I always wondered about all that brandy in the closet...
Linda (re-entering with shopping bag): Here it is. I should really organize it all one of these days.
Gina: Aww, here you are! Look at that, front page of the Post!
Susie: Oh hey, and there's Dad! See, they list him as 'unidentified male'!
Me: So what *did* you get expelled for?
Linda (shrugging): Oh, 'organizing terrorist cells'. It was all so silly.
Scene: the living room, a bunch of us hanging out waiting for the food to be ready.
Kim: So, exactly why did Linda get thrown out of Nicaragua?
Greg: Didn't she just follow Al when he got thrown out?
Gina: No, wait, I thought it was the other way around.
Chris: Right, didn't she poison somebody? The foreign minister or someone?
Me: What??
Greg (yelling into kitchen): Hey Linda! Why'd you get booted out of Nicaragua?
Linda (entering): Well, that's a funny story. See, the media got me all confused with someone else being kicked out at the same time, and they said *I* was the one accused of trying to poison that Foreign Minister with Benedictine brandy that'd been spiked with lithium. So ever since then my friends keep giving me Benedictine brandy as a gag gift. I've got a closet full of it.
Me: Well, at least they don't keep giving you lithium!
Dead silence. A tumbleweed blows through the room.
Linda: Anyhoo, it's all in my scrapbook. Here, let me get it...(exits)
Susie: You know, I always wondered about all that brandy in the closet...
Linda (re-entering with shopping bag): Here it is. I should really organize it all one of these days.
Gina: Aww, here you are! Look at that, front page of the Post!
Susie: Oh hey, and there's Dad! See, they list him as 'unidentified male'!
Me: So what *did* you get expelled for?
Linda (shrugging): Oh, 'organizing terrorist cells'. It was all so silly.
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Date: 2002-12-04 07:58 am (UTC)I can't help but wonder about the silence at your lithium comment- it wasn't that bad a joke, after all. I don't suppose she or someone else in the room is actually using the stuff medically and everyone but you knew it?
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Date: 2002-12-04 10:50 am (UTC)It's very possible.
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Date: 2002-12-04 10:27 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-12-04 10:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-12-04 08:21 pm (UTC)