A long 19 I did a crown braid today and thick sixties cat eyeliner War paint The grannies gathered at the cafe and eventually pushed together into one table K, A and I hugged and kissed them all and nervously shuffled back to our corner table Tante Angel, "Yes leave the kiddos (late 30s/mid 40s) be" Tante Z sent me dagger eyes I sent her "I love you but there's no way in hell I'm sitting at that table" eyes When we were safely out of earshot I blurted out I DONT KNOW WHAT THE DRAMA IS BUT I WANT NO PART OF IT K, "Yeah I noticed it too, just don't make eye contact" A, the architecture professor who is not a village resident, found it all very amusing Not only is A hotter after the surgery, she's funnier too "Where's the eye candy?" We have grannies, teens, families with babies and grandpas with dogs (And occasionally extremey sexy lifeguards and village maintenance dudes) Yooou're the eye candyyyy "Shush" but she smiled, I win Then I remembered I came out to K and tried to find yummy dads Him? Shoulders? K, "HA Sarah needs her eyes examined" A shook her head I stuffed my mouth with zalabeya to stop hitting on A It became evident that I wouldn't be forced into a granny promenade And then the waiters started gathering chairs around a screen and speakers for a big football match I decided to leave and walk off the dumplings in the village We argued about the check We have to argue I lost I walked for a few hours, found a football field I didn't know existed Went to the market, a fridge had caught on fire and it burned my eyes Everyone was more concerned about getting the football match on TV I took out too many soda cans and a really nice shopkeeper offered me a basket I was startled and fumbled with the cans and he caught them all with the basket-- it was amazing One of the cans knocked my tooth and he made a sympathy grimace and still caught the rest of them-- it felt like cirque du soleil Back home now I hope the grannies make peace Tante Angel came over and asked me about my guitar, she's SO CUTE I'm sure she's playing dumb too and trying to get everybody to talk I'm exhausted I think I might try to swim in the sea tomorrow |