Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Conversation At The Dinner Table

We were eating dinner last night, when I spied an empty shoe box in the corner. JF had gotten new shoes over the weekend, and I was curious to know how they were working out for him.

Me: Oh, yeah. How are your new shoes? Are you getting them all broken in?

JF: They're fine. What's "broken" is my back, not my shoes.

(JF has spent the last several weeks toting endless numbers of computers around old historical buildings which have no elevators, only cramped stairwells.)

Me: Ooh. Sorry about that. (Grimaces in empathetic pain...)

JF: Yeah, I keep asking for a new spine but you haven't gotten me one yet.

Me: Don't you know -- there's a shortage on them right now, what with the political scene and the banking world the way it is. Seems like everyone's looking for a new spine.

3 comments:

Liz Miller said...

Bwahahaha!

ccw said...

LOL!

Only remotely related, when I was in B&N looking for a book there was a display table of notebooks, folders, etc and the sign read "Designed by Old Historic Building School".

Fortune Cookies said...

heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh!