Sunday 24 April 2011

Fishing for Eggs


Bev: "Then I realised that I was thinking about this beautiful boy in an inappropriate way. I think that when someone starts to behave like that, then all you need to do is hold a mirror up to them. Show them reality. That would shut them up."

Me: "But Bev, there is nothing wrong with appreciating the beauty of youth. When a young girl reaches about 14 or so..."

Ursula: "Careful..."

Me: "I know, I know. What I was going to say was that we are programmed to appreciate the beauty of youth. There is not only nothing wrong with that, there is nothing we can do about it. Most girls, when they hit that sort of age, are just simply gorgeous. Simple as that. What am I supposed to do, lie about how gorgeous I think they are? Most boys for you are probably seen the same way. There's nothing sinister about it at all. Most people - especially adolescents - actually need to be told how gorgeous they are. It's our duty to do so. They usually have no idea. I certainly didn't feel that way about myself."

Bev: "Yes, I can see how you probably used to be good looking when you were young..."

Me: "Thanks very much."

Ursula: "What do you mean, 'used to be'? He is stunning. Look at his blue eyes. Look at his big head of hair."

Me: "Thanks very much."

I lean over and give Ursula a touch on the arm, and start to think that the £92 drinks bill was not such a waste of money after all...

10 comments:

  1. haha so true, wine loosens the tongue.

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  2. 92 pounds! You must have gone to the cat vomit place.

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  3. ........there's no fool like an old..............

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  4. Bev is on the left, Ursula is on the right, and a glass of wine costs £6.50 where we were, which was 100 yards from the purveyor of cat vomit.

    In Vino Veritas.

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  5. PPS - and we had 2 bowls of chips and 2 mineral waters which were dredged from Winston Churchill's birthplace.

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  6. Such wonderful smiles for just 92 smakaroos seems a bargain Sir.

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  7. you must be one of the 'titled' Brits, like the Duke of Chardonnay.

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  8. Or perchance, In vino.... mendacium

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  9. You can clearly see from my avatar that your comment is, in itself, mendacious, Cro, though admittedly it was taken before I started drinking.

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