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July 21, 2007
My Exciting and Glamorous Evening
I am currently sitting in a recliner, watching Psych and writing an e-mail to the dark-haired girl.
Whenever I e-mail TDHG I always try to make my life sound very exciting and glamorous. It is my intention to drive home the fact that whatever it was that TDHG was doing (without me and while I was doing my exciting and glamorous thing) pales in comparison.
(I also like to use the expression "drive home" whenever I e-mail TDHG. Not only do I think it gives my e-mail a Cars sort of feel, but I think there's something subliminally suggestive about the phrase. I don't know what it is exactly, I just know that when I typed "drive home" something subliminal happened to me.)
Tonight I happen to know TDHG is with 14 or 15 of her friends. They're having one of those sex-toys parties that are so popular today among sexually frustrated hot soccer moms with good senses of humor.
Naturally, I jest. Tonight is their Twister night.
Anyway, I was just wrapping up the e-mail detailing my exciting and glamorous evening (I spent over two hours sitting at the bar in Movie Tavern, waiting and drinking Diet Pepsi, while my 13-year old was on a date) when one of the characters in Psyche mentioned a place called Taco John's.
The Taco John's reference took me back to Myrtle Beach, circa 1980, when my buddy Roy and I were on Spring Break. There was a commercial on the radio for Taco John's and in part of the commercial there was a chant that went "taco, taco taco." This was followed by a chant that when "coupon, coupon, coupon" (and coupon was pronouned "coo-pon" instead of the more traditional Ohio "cue-pon"). As I recall, in the commercial it was suggested you take a piece of paper, cut it in a circle, and fold it over like a taco (taco, taco, taco) to make your own coupon (coo-pon, coo-pon, coo-pon) that you could use at Taco Johns. I think you had to write coupon on it too.
Whenever, and this rarely happens, I hear Taco John's mentioned, the chants taco, taco taco and coo-pon, coo-pon, coo-pon, run through my mind.
And this is how watching Psyche reminded me of probably the most exciting and glamorous thing that happened this evening.
While I was at Movie Tavern one of the owners stopped by and gave me a coupon for a free appetizer.
It's not exactly Twister with 15 women, but it isn't bad.
Posted by delmer at July 21, 2007 12:00 AM