20 December 2010

the damn weather!!

A friend of a friend (We'll call him Dan to protect his identity) mentioned how funny it is to talk about the weather. Not just talking about the weather, but doing so because of nothing else really to talk about. The following are excerpts from lunch that highlight this point:

me (feeling an awkward silence at the table, but trying not to mention that it was raining outside): I heard (a topic for another day the use of the phrase "I heard") that is snowed nine feet in Mammoth this weekend.

(ensuing comments)
...feels like it rained nine feet here!...
...yeah, does anyone know how much exactly?...
...on the train ride the river was flowing higher...
...I heard three inches...
...I was in London once and it was raining alot so we ate at a sit-down pizza hut. Can you believe that?...
...back in the day all of the pizza huts are sit down...
...I went to a sit-down pizza hut last weekend with my kids...
...Oh I thought it was something unique, nevermind...
(me): ever been to a sit down mcdonalds? Where they have waiters and they take your order and bring it to you?
...no, do those exist?...
(me): no...

::LONG PAUSE OF SILENCE::

...car industry really turning around eh?...
...what do you mean?...
...seen alot of new cars on the road recently...
...yeah, but still struggling i'd say...
...jeff bridges doing car commercials now, anyone see that...
(me) he's all over the place right now, in two movies at the same time! man!...
...yeah..
...yeah...
...yeah...
(everyone)yeah...
...anyone seen the kings speech?....
(silence)...oh...my wife says its good....
...im not going to get a new car for a while...
...yeah, bills are out of control....

(I exit)

2 comments:

  1. appreciate that you help some of your regular bloggers (in this case Dan) make proxy contributions/comments to the blog, even when they dont have access to the world wide internet. appears in my absence not a lot of people commented a lot, so im going to make a concerted effort to make up for lost time.

    didn't want to comment on that post about your "quote" because that was pretty lame bro.

    i like the work conversations and observations about "people" and "life" in general. comments about what a pretentious cocknballs you are kind of piss me off.

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  2. Its been a long time old friend...

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