Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
As I was browsing the produce at the grocery store, Dre sidled up behind me and said, “Ooh, we should finally get that pizza slicer we’ve been needing.”
“HELL YEAH!” I said, perhaps a little over enthusiastically because seriously: we keep talking about it, but never remember to actually buy one.
The art school student/grocery store employee stocking shelves a few feet away from me glanced up and said, “Wow, I guess you must have really found some great fruit.”
I explained, No no — pizza slicer, forgetting, finally remembering, very exciting, etc. Right about at that point, Dre walked up and dropped the new slicer into my grocery basket. I grabbed it, lifted it up, and said, “See? SLICER!!”
Produce guy chuckled and, as I started to wander away, he dryly commented, “I hope that helps you slice the pizza of your dreams.”
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
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Ellen
April 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Oh no! Just YESTERDAY Joe put his really nice pizza slicer (and slice-of-cake/pie-server-thing) into the free pile! Had I only known.
Ariel
April 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
That was part of why I kept lagging on getting one … I kept thinking a slicer would wander into our lives at some point. Or else I’d make it to the Goodwill, land of discarded kitchen utensils and gadgets. But whatever. Now we have one!
damon
April 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
they are good for slicing pancakes too.
Brianne
April 13th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
*laugh* That’s SO something I’ve done. Oh I get all the crazy looks… my husband and I sing and dance to the bad 80’s music they play at ours.