lunch was funny today. while walking to lunch, zeusian icicle bolts were falling from traffic lights, power lines and overhangs making sploootchy fallen-ice-sounds. foreign sounds for texan ears.
lunch was funny today. i went to oasis café and my waitress and i carried on the entire ordering lunch dialog en español. why she tried spanish con this gringo, or how she knew i was happy to try ordering en un otro idioma, yo no se. idioma is a masculine noun, right pam?
lunch was funny today. the bored-looking guy diagonal to me started with a glass of iced tea. he took the three-quarters-full dispenser and added a spoonful of sugar. then instead of removing the sugar dispenser, he simply removed the spoon. sugar is still coming out at a fairly high rate of speed. half-full, quarter-full, mark twain!... the guy empties the entire container's sugar contents into his tea without so much as a guilt-laden furtive side-glance. it struck me as funny and i must have smiled. i then caught the glance of another older gentleman seated across from me, who also glanced over at the young man as he set the empty dispenser on the table. so then this man starts smiling, too. then, still looking bored, oblivious sugar guy takes the spoon and stirs his tea, reeeeally slowly, presumably because of the sludge in the bottom of his glass. anyway. lunch was funny today.
lunch could be funny for you, too. if you are just north of main plaza in downtown san antonio and decide to duck into the oasis café* and if you're eating there alone, say, without a book or newspaper, you'll no doubt want someplace to rest your eyes so that it doesn't appear you're gawking at patrons. you'll probably check out the hand-painted lettering on the front storefront, and then maybe you'll notice a painting, hanging on the southern wall ... a painting of a southwest-style adobe structure. if your food takes a while to get there, you might stare at the painting long enough to notice that something's wrong with the painting. and then you'll log back on to soupablog and reply to this post, and tell me what's wrong with the painting, and the first correct respondent will win a prize from soupablog.
*not the oasis mexican café near first presbyterian church, but the other, smaller, unrelated oasis café by the old charles a. james bicycle company on main.
idioma...indeed a masculine noun. : )
i hope i get to talk to you soon about the latest developments in your spiritual and community life.
hugs to all the soupiset familia...
Posted by: pamelita | Friday, January 19, 2007 at 03:03 PM