18 February 2004
Sandwich shop conversation
Me: Can I have a soft roll with egg mayonnaise please?
Her: eh?
Me: Can I have a soft roll with egg mayonnaise please?
Her: egg mayonnaise?
Me: yes.
Her: Would you like that on a soft or crusty roll?
Me: ...
There was a man wearing a santa hat on my bus the other morning.
I have a long skirt which I love to wear. It's longer than ankle length and very flared and floaty. It makes me feel all victorian and elegant, swishing as I walk along.
Except when I tread on it, which I do with frightening frequency.
It's almost lethal when ascending or descending bus staircases, but I still like to wear it anyway, even though it has at least three fairly large holes in it, near the hem from previous occasions where I trod on it.
At least three people have today complimented me on my skirt. It's cheered me up considerably.
Also, I feel like the wicked witch of the west today, with my black and white stripey socks on under the skirt.
My favourite barman from the fabled "pub-across-the-road-from-work" no longer works there. This is a disaster. I will now have to go through the exhaustive process of training another barman to remember what I drink, even if I haven't been in there for weeks.
Jaffa cake muffins rock.
The Battlestar Galactica two-part film thing that's been on Sky Movies the last couple of nights was actually pretty good as far as space geek tv goes. It reminds me of a cross between Babylon 5 and Space: Above and Beyond.
In other tv news, Jake 2.0 was entertaining despite the unrealistic psuedo-science twaddle and obvious stereotypical characters. 24 will no doubt continue to infuriate me and cause me to want to throw things at the TV, but at least it's on Sky now so no deeply shite Pure 24 follow-up proggy to drive me bonkers.
Training the barman sounds like an arduous job ;-)
Jaffa cake muffins do, as you say, rock.
24 also rocks. But then I'm at about episode 10 or 11 at the moment (ain't the net wonderful) and I have to disagree, Pure 24 was genius, awful TV but genius for those extra possible storylines that only the depraved and desperate would think up (I'm sure last season someone suggested Nina had had Jack's baby and that would be a storyline...!!!)
i dug the first series of 24 (though the plot holes left a lot to be desired), but gave up on series 2 after only a few episodes... it seemed to be deliberately pandering to the worst of modern America's many paranoias.
What with finally getting so see all of Millennium Season 3 (thanks to Sci-Fi), the cancellation of Buffy, and the impending cancellation of Angel; it looks like i shall soon have no reason to own a TV. That's a good thing, right?
Jaffa Cake muffins do indeed rock. As do long swishy skirts, and wearing santa hats in february.
What are Jaffa Cake muffins?
I had a similar experience once in a fast food place.
Me: And I would also like a Coke
Her: What kind?
Me: Coke
Her: What kind?
Me: Coke... Ceee Ohhhh Kay Eeeee Coke.
Her: What kind of coke would you like sir?
Me: I'll take a root beer.
Apparently the word coke stands for any Coca Cola product at this place, and at the time I wanted a Coca-Cola bottling company product called "Coke." Of which I was unable to sqelch my thirst for and entirely gave up coke and switched to Pepsi.
Santa hat? That reminds me.
Those bloody lights are still up on Oxford Street saying 'Merry Christmas from Mamma Mia'.
Thanks, Mamma Mia. I appreciate your best Christmas wishes and would like to offer you compliments of the season also.
Now take the damn things down.
Series 1 of 24 had me glued to the TV, but series 2 was a bit of a letdown...I noticed they had a different director for series 2, and Kim was just annoying me intensely!
Unfortunatley I see Sky have pinched 24 off the Beeb, and I don't have Sky, so who knows when I'll get to see series 3...I wonder how they can top attempting to blow up LA with a nuke tho. And *please* give Kim something to do other than run around looking confused all the time!
Every time I used to go into the barkery I'd get the same conversation with the assistant:
Me: A hot cheese pasty please
her: What kind of pasty would you like?
Me: A cheese one
Her: Would you like it hot?
Seems her brain could only hold & process one item of information at a time.
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