Life makes echoes, if you see them.
It was the moment I had dreaded. We had been dancing all night. But it was time to make a confession that was sure to send the encounter forever into the ephemeral.
Before I could come clean, she had a confession of her own.
"Listen, I am so sorry, but I have to go. My friends and I have to get up early tomorrow to head back home to Utah..."
"You're kidding me."
And then it happened. Without thinking, I uttered the five words I had heard a thousand times before, but never anticipated asking of anybody else.
"You're not Mormon are you?"
Before I could come clean, she had a confession of her own.
"Listen, I am so sorry, but I have to go. My friends and I have to get up early tomorrow to head back home to Utah..."
"You're kidding me."
And then it happened. Without thinking, I uttered the five words I had heard a thousand times before, but never anticipated asking of anybody else.
"You're not Mormon are you?"
posted by d l wright at 11/20/2006 07:02:00 PM
12 Comments:
Was she?
where were/are you?
Mark, didn't you ever read the Baudelaire poem where he extols the virtues of a closed window over an open one?
I disagree with that poem, and with you for dodging the question(s).
I agree with Ben.
Anyway, you can see through a closed window just as well as you can see through an open window. Baudelaire is a stupid loser lame-azoid.
Well said Mark.
As far as I know she wasn't/isn't and she had twin Swedish rock-climbing friends. Bonus!
Okay so they were sisters, not twins.
PRAGMATIST BEN IN NOT BEING ABLE TO APPRECIATE LITERARY MODERNISM SHOCKER!
Since Brad has decided to take on the role of the Oracle, let me answer your questions with another question:
How could I possibly exist in a world where Hipsters looked like Mormons and Mormons looked like Hipsters?
wait, she's a hipster? you may want to disregard the advice i gave you about not being afraid to let her know you're interested. that'll just backfire with a hipster.
Au contraire, Brad. She looked like a Hipster.
You missed the operative sentence in my original post: "We had been dancing all night."
Note how I did not say: "We spent the entire night standing at the bar, arms folded into our leather jackets, sneering at everyone while snidely remarking that the music was clearly derivative of a far more obscure band."
i appreciate the fact that it sucks...
hipster mormons, huh... a sign of the apocalypse? i think so.
God, i'm just getting rocked on this comment board. I need to hire a fact checker.
Looks like a hipster, dances like Justin Timberlake.
Brad, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Getting rocked on this comment board is like getting dissed on a K-Fed mixtape.
Bring sexy back for sure.
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