Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-02-18 00:46 <=-
The idea is pretty sensible: you take pity
on your heirs and assigns and do some of their
cleanup work while you have nothing better to
do (they will always have something better to
do). It of course involves getting rid of the
triggers of old memories, which is hard.
And which can also sabotage the process... ;0
Of course, because that attitude is what
renders these draconian measures necessary in
the first place.
I think I'll just leave it all to the kid... serve him right for never
coming home, and leaving his problems to me... (G)
The frenzy of cleanup loses a lot of stuff.
Especially with many hands... and not really paying attention to that which is being boxed up to move, either... :)
As I've discovered, paying attention is not the
primary value at this point.
Unless one is looking for something in particular....
Then there's the throwing up one's hands
in despair and giving up thing.
One does get to that point, true... ;/
... They don't even sell this to white people, it's that intense.
H'm.
Tag courtesy, of course, of Jim Weller... :) And the "oriental" salad seemed indeed to be "white folks" material... ;)
Yes ... you two are the honorary nongringos.
Richard and I confused a restaurant proprietor yesterday... Edith wanted
to go to Nam Vang, a Vietnamese family restaurant (I reported on an
earlier visit there with my friend Cathy to Ruth Hafley recently).. My
second visit there, Richard and Edith's first... I ordered duck noodle
soup, which I'd tried to order first time there and they were out of it, Richard ordered the porkchop plate, and Edith ordered a beef pho (having
asked the young waiter what HE would be eating at home from the
options)... The older gentleman couldn't understand why I'd ordered
something "nobody ever orders", the implication being white folks...
Richard said, it's on the menu... (G) I explained a little further,
that I liked duck, liked trying new-to-me items, etc... I almost claimed
my honorary Asian status, but stopped a little short of that... (G)
Apparently "white folks' don't order the porkchop plate all that often,
either, nor ask for tea... Richard wondered about what the tea leaf was,
the taste and odor reminded him of the leaf that "dump" comes in for
dimsum... so the gentleman checked it out for us... turned out to be
pandan leaf.... that seemed to impress him, too, that we appreciated an
"odd" tea... ;) I suspect that we became memorable... he did remember
me already from the first visit...
ttyl neb
... I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.
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