Sometimes boredom is your best ally. It brought me this little jewel:
A thrift store gets rather boring after 7 o'clock or so and so in an attempt to keep myself entertained while also continuing to work I starting playing the age old classic The Floor is Lava using a Z-rack (a mobile clothing rack about four feet long by 5 feet high, named for the wheel mount which looks like a Z.) to cart myself along as I conditioned the women's green-black, solid sweater rack. About a third of the way through a former High School friend noticed me and asked me what I was doing.
"Working," I replied in an absent-minded voice, immediately after cursing when I dropped a sweater lamenting that "well, it's lost to the flames now, God rest ye soul brave sailor" (a lava fairing pirate? Oh yes.)
He continued looking at me in confused amusement and I decided to let him in on the precious information I had discovered, "The floor is lava! Hurry, hop on my vessel lest ye limbs be fried asunder!"
He did, rather indelicately and almost had me bashing my skull on the sweater rack's sturdy, steel support, but I righted our makeshift "boat" and we ended up having a pleasant conversation about how our lives have been going the last year and a half since high school ended. Until, that is, I made the retort of "Not the Mama!" and pretended to bash him in the head with an imaginary skillet. He was entertained but puzzled. In a shocked, betrayed and then disgusted voice I told him, "You don't know " 'Not the Mama![?!]' No-no we can't be mateys. Get off me boat."
-"Are you serious?"
"Yarg."
-"But my limbs!"
"Aye, to the flames with ye!"
-"But, but... But I know the theme song to the Banana Splits, would that make things right?"
"... ... Yarg"
He sang and danced (as best you can standing on a mobile 2" beam) and made a general ass out of himself.
And all was well.
COMMENTS
*hmmm* coffee ambrosia of the gods *sighs and sips more of hers*
soggy cookies are the worst!!!!!!!!!!
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."-Fyodor Dostoevsky
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WallFlower
18:34 Jan 31 2010
Make that a lava fairing pirate that also happens to be a sweater. *raises a frothy mug* A toast to your fallen...er...matey.
immortalxkiss
06:25 Feb 01 2010
For shame for him not knowing "Not the Mama!" For shame!