Having a drink in an outside patio with my friend and colleague:
SHE: Oh my god. There’s a spider on the wall. Kill it. KILL IT.
ME: Here, I’ll remove it with this menu--
SHE: NO. Not good enough.
(STOMP)
ME: Hey! I was going to deposit it in those bushes. That was a living thing. Aren’t you a believer in God, and stuff?
SHE: Whatever. It was a spider.
ME: We are all spiders in the eyes of the Lord. Didn’t you ever read Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?
SHE: What, the senator who was just caught cheating on his wife?
ME: Hmm. Now that you mention it, it’s kind of interesting they have the same name.
Bonus conversation with someone totally different!
SHE: You should have been the wedding I was at this weekend. It was Star Wars themed.
ME: .....
SHE: Great Darth Vader cake.
ME: ....just tell me that they’re not planning on having children.
SHE: They’re hoping for twins. So they can name them Luke and Leia.
so wait. it seems like you’re saying naming the twins luke and leia would be a bad thing. i don’t get it. what’s so wrong with that?
:D
course, if I had twins I’d name them elizabeth and bennett. that’s much cooler.
OMG - was it THIS Star Wars wedding?! http://technabob.com/blog/2008/08/05/star-wars-wedding-is-so-good/
My twins would be named Peter and Moskeeter.
I just clicked on mia’s link and it bent my mind in half.
It has to be a different wedding because my friend specifically said the cake was a Darth Vader, not a Walker. Therefore, there must be at least two SW weddings in existence, and really, that is two too many.
To tell the truth, I prefer Star Wars themes over the “Asian theme” that all the white girls are doing these days. Star Wars at least takes some dedication (and thereby appreciation), whereas the Asian motif is going to be a passing trend for 99.9% of 2008’s brides. Like all the people who got groom’s cakes with “tribal” images and flames in 1997.
Also, isn’t that Walker cake like kind of way too impressive? Like you want to laugh, but you end up just admiring it instead?
AND back to the spider thing: my friend always warned me to never kill spiders because they’re everywhere… and when one sees you kill a fellow arachnid, they put out the word. I swear that every time I have squished one, I wake up the next day with a spider bite. So now, I always scoop ‘em up and take ‘em outside. Sometimes I fling them, but I think that’s a fair trade. I hurl you out the front door in exchange for your life.