Sunday, November 14, 2010

Luckily, we have a lot of vegetables.


The historian is doing a Sunday crossword puzzle.

I am replacing one page in my manuscript with a corrected page, as I have just discovered that there is a leftover word with a strike-through in it. The strike-through is there because the word was supposed to have been deleted, which is what the strike-through meant. I am also trying not to think about the fact that I have recently sent this manuscript with its unassuming yet nefarious, possibly malicious, strike-through word to at least a dozen places. Ugh.

Son and his friends are downstairs watching an unviewed season of Scrubs. Friend of Son, who is like a son to me, comes upstairs with a dish to put in the sink.

Friend of Son, who is like a son to me: I ate some of that potato pie. It was good.

Historian: What would you call that, sweetheart? would you call it potato pie?

Me: I would call it "Tortilla Española." But it had feta on it, so it was unorthodox. (pause, to contemplate how pretentious I just sounded, what with that ñ and all.)

Friend of Son: (polite laugh:) Well, it was good.

Me: Are you a tomato eater?

Friend of Son: Yes, I am.

Me: It's good with some tomatoes by it.

Historian: It was really good.

Me: (small and invisible preening, after which I resume inserting the page at the scene of my recent strike-through humiliation.)

Friend of Son: (without a word, picks up half-eaten bag of Lays Wavy potato chips in the red bag; makes for the stairs.)

Me: . . . So that's how it is around here.


Friend of Son: (sound of laughter disappearing down the stairs.)


5 comments:

  1. I have one word to say:
    Gorrrrrrrrrrrrrrdita.

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  2. I would like to try this potato pie. I would like to be a boy at your house.

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  3. What was the word?!

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  4. I absolutely adore your writing--sharing--thinking--life--you and yours.

    word verif: nowelays

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  5. I like to think that each and every person privileged enough to get to experience your strike through word will pause and consider it some great feat of linguistic magic that is at once post-modern and then also perhaps sincere and ironic at the same time.

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