It was the worst job interview of my life. Worse than the time an employer asked where I needed to improve and I blurted out, “I need to stop stealing office supplies for drug money.”
Category: Annoying Things
The Break Up
Last night Sleep and I broke up. We disagreed over a bar of dark chocolate. Sleep said, “You’ll regret eating that.” But of course, I ate it anyway. I should have listened because sleep was right. And I had all night to think about it.
My dark-chocolate buzz made random thoughts swirl in my head like an inter-cranial tornado, thoughts like, why can you give someone short shrift, but not long shrift? Why is abbreviation such a long word? And why are your loins the only part of your body you can gird?
Mensa Densa
Midnight Express Lane
Apartment Living
I’d rather live in a sleeping bag under a bridge than in an apartment. On my fun things to do list, apartment living rates right below pulling hair out of the bathtub drain.
What I find difficult is the forced familiarity. I know things about my neighbors that strangers should not know about each other, things that should only be shared after a late-night Jacuzzi session with three or four mojitos.
Excuses, Excuses
Making excuses is not one of my shortcomings; actually I’m quite good at it. My excuses are not the impossible-to-prove, dog-ate-my-homework variety; mine are unimpeachable exonerations that include indisputable proof. Continue reading “Excuses, Excuses”
A Fowl Mystery
Calling my first house a fixer-upper puts too nice a spin on it. Besides being a dump, it had been decorated by Bad Taste, Inc. But I wasn’t complaining. The faux knotty-pine dinning room paneling, the gold-vein mirror tiled bedroom, and the blue cow living room wallpaper were the reason the house sold way below market.
Lady Liberty Works the Swing Shift
One day while driving down Beach Boulevard, I passed a typical strip mall where one shop had a huge sign that read: Caskets, Urns and Gravemarkers: Direct to the Public. I don’t know about you, but I hate buying those things indirectly.
Then, I passed the usual conclave of psychic palm readers, the last of which also sells ceiling fans and vitamins, and on that corner, under the billboard advertising Actors and Models for Christ, I spotted something . . . unusual: Lady Liberty waiting for a bus.
I Still Believe
When I was eight I told my mother I wanted to grow up and join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. “That’s great, Honey,” she said. “You go for it.” Years later, I learned of her deceit. How was I supposed to know you had to be Mormon? Continue reading “I Still Believe”
Monkey Business
As a costume designer I dreamed of doing Shakespeare. How then did I become the personal costumer for a pair of ice-skating chimpanzees? Oh, yeah. The mortgage. Continue reading “Monkey Business”