The coffee cup (385 hits)
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Submitted by InkyFingers (View user info) at 2007-02-22 12:24:12 EST
He's talking about his mother's back problem again. Telling me she hardly walks anymore and needs orthpedic inserts for her shoes. I pour cream in my coffee and watch it die, slowly. He tells me about her time as a las vegas show girl and the costumes, she kept them. They're hanging in one of the closets at his apartment.
"Really?" someone says, could have been me, but I'm so far away from his jabbering. Dreaming about crappy british tele is like taking half a bottle of aspirin, but I'm willing to risk it.
My mother is a complex person, you should meet her. he says. "I love my mother because she's the only person that gives a fuck about my ugly, stupid ass." I hear.
I pour sweet n low in my coffee to be doing something and he continues, " She tried to get me into dancing when I was a kid, but it didn't work. I've never been coordinated. That's why they fired me at Shoney's, too many broken plates.
I pour another sweet and low in my coffee, to be doing something.
But the record store interview is promising and I think they'll call me back. I've been trying to get a job at a record store for a long time and I got a good feeling. GOtta have a supplemental income for the paper plant job.
My tie feels tight.
DOn't move, Im going to get a cookie.
He walks over to get a cookie and I check my watch. Just tell this shit I gotta go and back away slowly.
I pour another sweet and low in my coffee which is now an undrinkable, sacrine waste vat. "You knwo, I just love chocolate chip cookies. They're so yummy." he explains, sitting accross from me." That's when the coffee jumped out of my hand: sweet and low, cream, boiling coffee distillation all over his sleeve. If I'd known it was going to happen I would have aimed higher.
He looks at me with surprise. "Well, that's the silliest thing I've ever seen."
Yeah, "That was weird."
"Well"
"Well what." I reply.
"Aren't you going to apologize or offer to pay for the dry cleaning."
"I don't think there's any chance of that. You can go somewhere and die though. Choke on some cookies or whatever."
You know I have to fire you for this.
"I'm sure you do." I replied still looking with astonishment at the empty cup in my hand. I wonder if they give free refills?
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-02-22 16:27:06 EST (#)
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spellcheck
Submitted by Cyrus (user info) at 2007-02-22 15:57:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
short but interesting
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-02-22 13:24:41 EST (#)
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Yup
Submitted by DudeThatsBOSH (user info) at 2007-02-22 13:22:35 EST (#)
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bosh
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-02-22 13:16:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by DesolateMisanthrope (user info) at 2007-02-22 12:45:28 EST (#)
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nice story with a nicer plot.
Submitted by Luther (user info) at 2007-02-22 12:34:38 EST (#)
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Auto+2- usage of the word "silly"
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-02-22 12:34:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I chuckled
Submitted by Hagard (user info) at 2007-02-22 12:27:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Coffee GOOOOOD!