So why is it that I always want to write back, "please can I just have the money?" What a terrible person I am.
No, but seriously, think about it, that's a lot of money if you add it up, and I'm not going to get any work done later if I have a drink now. My body chemicals will be all out of kilter, I won't be able to concentrate and I'll want to have a nap. That means I won't be able to go to sleep at bedtime and I won't be able to concentrate properly until 5 o'clock the next day, by which point I'll be so frustrated that I won't want to do anything. Do you see the problem? Plus I'll feel sort of obligated to you for the drink.
How about, if you ever meet me, you buy me a postcard from your home town and a button badge you think I might like. That's not too extravagant. It expresses gratitude and pan-continental friendship, a coming together over a rectangle and a circle.
All right, wait, I might be talking myself out of some good times here. How about, if you're a pretty lady on the go*, you buy me the postcard, and the button badge, and a drink, and I'll buy you a drink and write you a poem about orange blossom near an ornamental pond. Here's how it would work:
"Hello John it is me, the cute little doctor lady from House, here are the button badge and postcard and etc"."Well thank you and how very interesting"
"Is it time for the poem"
"Alas no because the postcard is of a unicorn frolicing with a furry dog woman in a thong and you have a skeleton hand"
"True love dies hard on jagged rocks, Johnny"
"Goodbye House doctor girl, this was a tender and terrifying moment".
* The offer is never from a "pretty lady on the go" but stick with me, I am hitting my stride here
3 comments:
I'm not sure what's more frightening; that postcard or the fact that you found that postcard.
The young lady from House is cute, but I'd rather get a postcard from Kate on 'Lost': "Greetings from the Hatch! Wish you were heeeeeeeeeeeeeerreee..." *thud*
I too need a nap after any amount of alcohol, so if I met you I'd be more inclined to offer gifts of food and art supplies rather than alcohol. But that was before you made a suggestion of what to offer as a gesture of good will.
If I ever get to your part of the world (unlikely, since I'm poor, but I can dream) I will come prepared with a nifty button and a postcard.
Being from my part of Canada, its rare to say to someone that you owe them an alcoholic drink, but rather a *double-double* from Tim's. That way you're so jacked up on caffiene (and whatever other addictive additives they put in their coffee) that you dont have to worry about needing a nap.
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