A note, and a WTF? sort of story
Jul. 31st, 2006 10:54 pmFirst: omg so tired. If I owe you mail or comment replies, expect them in the next few days. If I owe you an answer to an e-mail that was sent before this week, couldya perhaps e-mail me again? I have no excuses, really, for not answering, though I don't have access to my address book while I'm here. Of course, if you don't see this before next Monday, well, I'll hope to send some stuff off next week when I'm less all over the place from the house-sitting and the dealing with having to go outside in the heat and all that.
Second: Imagine if you will...
INT. GROCERY STORE - NIGHT
Grocery store employees are wearing white button-up uniform shirts, black pants, aprons, some in hats if they work with the food. There are some scattered about the store, doing their jobs.
ASHINAE, just off work, is sporting a sweat-sheened face. Her hair falling out of its ponytail, and she is wearing a red uniform long-sleeved polo shirt, black pants, purse slung across her shoulder, and carrying a grocery store basket across her arms. The basket carries 100 grams of shaved Black Forest ham. However, she is full of woe, because there are absolutely no buns or rolls of any sort left as she leaves the bakery and deli section.
WOMAN'S VOICE
Is this all the fish you have?
Ashinae continues on her way past the various meat. She's trying to decide whether or not to get more Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream, or if she'll try the Cherry Garcia flavour.
WOMAN'S VOICE
(much more insistent)
Excuse me! Is this all the fish you have left?
Ashinae stops walking and turns around slowly. She blinks a few times. The silence in the air is tangible. A man, who is holding a package of beef, looks between a WOMAN standing in front of the fish, and poor, hapless Ashinae. The woman is staring at Ashinae.
ASHINAE
(as though the woman is an idiot)
I work at St@ples. I can sell ya paper, but I don't know a thing about fish.
WOMAN
(after a pause)
Oh.
ASHINAE
Yeah.
Ashinae feels guilty for snapping at the woman, but in the same instant she continues on her way, she decides she's going to try the Cherry Garcia flavour. She's very hungry. Not to mention sweaty, tired, and itchy. In fact, she thinks she's the itchiest girl in the world.
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OK, pardon the crappy script formatting, but I'm too tired to work it all out with HTML. And that's my story.
Second: Imagine if you will...
INT. GROCERY STORE - NIGHT
Grocery store employees are wearing white button-up uniform shirts, black pants, aprons, some in hats if they work with the food. There are some scattered about the store, doing their jobs.
ASHINAE, just off work, is sporting a sweat-sheened face. Her hair falling out of its ponytail, and she is wearing a red uniform long-sleeved polo shirt, black pants, purse slung across her shoulder, and carrying a grocery store basket across her arms. The basket carries 100 grams of shaved Black Forest ham. However, she is full of woe, because there are absolutely no buns or rolls of any sort left as she leaves the bakery and deli section.
Is this all the fish you have?
Ashinae continues on her way past the various meat. She's trying to decide whether or not to get more Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream, or if she'll try the Cherry Garcia flavour.
(much more insistent)
Excuse me! Is this all the fish you have left?
Ashinae stops walking and turns around slowly. She blinks a few times. The silence in the air is tangible. A man, who is holding a package of beef, looks between a WOMAN standing in front of the fish, and poor, hapless Ashinae. The woman is staring at Ashinae.
(as though the woman is an idiot)
I work at St@ples. I can sell ya paper, but I don't know a thing about fish.
(after a pause)
Oh.
Yeah.
Ashinae feels guilty for snapping at the woman, but in the same instant she continues on her way, she decides she's going to try the Cherry Garcia flavour. She's very hungry. Not to mention sweaty, tired, and itchy. In fact, she thinks she's the itchiest girl in the world.
OK, pardon the crappy script formatting, but I'm too tired to work it all out with HTML. And that's my story.