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November 16, 2006
Open the #$%@#$ door
This is one I thought I'd posted before. I've searched the site and can't find it, which could simply mean my regular-expression skills are piss-poor. Anyway, I was reminded of the following while reading Triggerfish Twist this morning. Whenever I think of this I laugh ... so here it is (again?).
This was about 1984. Ted (not his real name) and I had gone back to Miami University (Oxford, Ohio ... Miami was a University when Florida still belonged to the Spanish) to visit some friends.
We decided Cindy would be one of the friends we visited.
We walked into Cindy's apartment building and up to the second-floor landing.
Boom boom boom, Ted banged on the door and using his best Eddie-Murphy-playing-a-street thug voice shouted: "Open the door."
"Who is it?" came the meek and feminine voice from the other side of the door.
Now, my recollection had been that Cindy lived on the third floor, but as Ted was normally better with things like directions and because he seemed so sure of himself I didn't say anything.
"What do you mean 'who is it?' Who the f*ck do you think it is. Now open the goddam door!"
"Ted?" came a voice from above us.
We looked up and there stood Cindy on the third floor landing. We scurried up the steps to her apartment.
As it happens an older woman lived on the second floor. Cindy said she'd take care of smoothing thinks over. Ted and I wondered if she'd ever leave her apartment again.
Like I said, I think this might be in the blog somewhere and I was, initially, worried that I'd bore some of the more regular readers with a repeat. And then it hit me ... when I see my old friends we talk about the old stories time and again (you can bet that next time I see Ted this story will come up and we'll laugh about it).
So ... if you are a longer-time reader and this story sounds familiar, you and I have reached that old-buddies stage of our blogging relationship. If you're new, hang on for a while; I'll probably repeat this in a week or two.
Posted by delmer at November 16, 2006 7:57 AM