Mittwoch (Wednesday).

  • Went to get coffee this morning. There was a man in line ahead of me, who discovered that his credit/debit card wasn’t getting authorization. He went to his car to get his checkbook…. it wasn’t there. So, I offered to – and did – pay for his coffee. He was astonished. Are altruistic acts so alien to us today? To me, it was just being kind, but I think that you could have knocked him over with the proverbial feather when I told Jamie (clerk at the local Beans & Brews) to just ring his items up with mine. Oh, well.
  • Went to work. Wasn’t too bad.
  • Started to go to the gym, but opted out and went to see John Q with Jess. Interesting movie; I liked it.
  • Came home.

What’s this?!? John Madden may be on Monday Night Football next season?! And they may let Dennis Miller go? Either way, it should be interesting.

This made me laugh.

This also made me laugh: I heard a radio spot for performances of The Vagina Monologues. It went something like this:

    Customer: I’d like to buy tickets for that play about…. (blah blah blah)…
    Ticket Attendant: What’s the name of the play?
    Customer: Well…. it sounds like “China”
    Ticket Attendant: Oh…. you mean: The Vagina Monologues.
    Customer: (You can almost hear her blanche on air.) Yes….
    (blah blah blah…)
    Ticket Attendant: So…. what was the name of the play again?
    Customer: ….
    Ticket Attendant: Come on… say it…
    Customer: The Vagina Monolgues.
    (blah blah blah…)

I found it funny because that sounded so much like how I would expect many of the locals, here behind the Zion Curtain, to react. Can you say ‘sexually repressed culture,’ boys and girls? I dunno. I just found it funny… especially since I could picture a number of peoples’ faces in the part of the customer. Click here for more information about the play.

And, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor: That’s all the news from Lake Saline… where all the children are happy, all the men are rugged, and the women are afraid to say the word “vagina.” Goodnight, everybody. Thanks for tuning in.

Peace.