#4 . The Family Business… While, I’m sure every culture receives its’ own fair share of prejudices; I can only speak of my own personal experience. Just because you hear an Italian say “family business”, it doesn’t mean it’s time for our semi-annual mafia potluck. It’s a painstakingly rare occurrence that those words don’t summon a bevy of shifty eyes peering at you like you already delivered the horse and had their cement shoes fitted. Heaven forbid you do utter the words “family business” as opposed to “family things”, “family affairs”, “family stuff” you would likely follow that up with an uncomfortable rambling about each and every detail of the “business”. Like, “Henry is divorcing Karen and the kids are so upset blah blah blah…” and no matter how uncomfortable the rambling is, you only want them to stop staring at you, but you….can’t…..stop…..talking.
#5. Why Does Everyone Look So Hungry? … I don’t know the answer to that question. I think there’s just some genetic mutation that makes everyone look hungry, but then I’m not a scientist. Once, I was at a grocery store in Santa Barbara, California and I saw this hobo walking around picking up one inexpensive item after another and just staring at it and putting it back down. It nearly broke my heart, so when I saw him in the parking lot I pushed a twenty into his hand and then he began pummeling me with old blueberry muffins- at least I think those were blueberries. So, you can never tell and who am I to judge? All I know is if you’re holding a plate, I will feed you something and if I catch you gawking at food, consider it a done deal.
No comments:
Post a Comment