Flip-flop Lie (687 hits)
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Submitted by <mizuchoudai.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2004-05-07 14:32:20 EDT
As beautiful a day as today is, I almost wish it hadn't happened. It prompted me to wear my comfortable, yet strangely fashionable (in that down-played low-maintenance way), flip-flops. My walk to work is 20 minutes long and, having done it for almost 7 years now, I can do it on Automatic Pilot. So, I'm strolling along thinking--"should I should bother painting my living room this summer or save money to buy my own place...like $30 is going to buy me a house...I should just paint...what color?...beige...yuck...I'd rather get the couch first...but then what if paint gets on it...I'll get those plastic sheets..."--and other such inane thoughts, when I'm harshly brought back to reality by an increasingly annoying sound: my flip-flops. I stop. I realize something is terribly wrong. I start walking again. And then I realize. It's not "flip flop". It's "flip flip" or, more accurately "flop flop." There's absolutely no difference in the first sound from the next. Then I realize the same is true of "tick tock." Shit. My day is shattered. I get to work, throw my dishonest flip-flops in a drawer and put on my slippers, which, to my dismay, were not the slip-on, but the step-into kind. Can nothing tell the truth anymore?
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Submitted by NotApologizing (user info) at 2004-05-11 17:24:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Are you Japanese? No, you can't be. They write English better than you.
By the way, his name means "Water, please"
Submitted by Milkman (user info) at 2004-05-07 14:51:34 EDT (#)
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maybe you should paint your living room with, say, blood from your arteries
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2004-05-07 14:48:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
At least this one was legible. Quite an epiphany you had there.
Submitted by Rixes (user info) at 2004-05-07 14:39:27 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
I have a grandfather clock, tick and tock do sound different.
Submitted by slowlyrotting (user info) at 2004-05-07 14:38:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i hate when they lie about flip flops too