Things I Have Discovered I Cannot Do: Pantomime a collect call to someone who does not speak English.
Things I Can Do: Give up and just use my cellphone to call the people she's trying to reach and let her make the call that way.
You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport. Yet by far the most troublesome. Does that seem right to you?
Early ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - May 14, 2009 4:10:44 pm PDT #19580 of 30000
§ ita § - May 14, 2009 4:11:57 pm PDT #19581 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ugh, Julie. Sorry to hear about the stomach troubles.
Things I Have Discovered I Cannot Do: Pantomime a collect call to someone who does not speak English.
I'm at a loss as to how to mime it to an English-speaker, so you're one ahead of me.
meara - May 14, 2009 4:15:15 pm PDT #19582 of 30000
I'm at a loss as to how to mime it to an English-speaker, so you're one ahead of me.
Heh. Well, it helps when you're standing in front of a payphone with a woman who has grabbed you pleading "you help? you help?" and a fistful of change and a phone number. Unfortunately, it was a long-distance number, and while I tried to figure out if whoever it was (her mother, I think? Or maybe she was the mother, and the person was her child? Who knows?) would take a collect call from her, finally I just gave up, and called--I've got plenty of minutes.
§ ita § - May 14, 2009 4:18:19 pm PDT #19583 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just gave up, and called--I've got plenty of minutes.
Wait till you find out she was calling Timbuktu during peak hours.
meara - May 14, 2009 4:22:28 pm PDT #19584 of 30000
Hah! No, it was an address and phone number for someone in Arizona.
sarameg - May 14, 2009 4:23:16 pm PDT #19585 of 30000
You did a good thing, meara. She'll remember you kindly.
So it is pouring rain and all my drainspouts are draining.
Barb - May 14, 2009 4:24:05 pm PDT #19586 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
I find that Love Actually loses quite a bit of its obscene charm when edited for basic cable.
ETA: Of course, the scenes with Liam Neeson are even more heartbreaking now.
sarameg - May 14, 2009 4:29:43 pm PDT #19587 of 30000
OK, cannot get miniblinds for the french doors.* Loki just pulled down the broken one on himself trying to get out. I had gone out front to make sure that the drain extender was working and so he had a session with the screen door which =LOKI WANT OUTSIDE CRAZY.
He's even trying the basement door now.
* Not that I was gonna.
shrift - May 14, 2009 4:35:47 pm PDT #19588 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
...and now on FB my aunt is bemoaning that I don't live near her because she'd love to hook me up with some guy.
I'm tempted to write a book titled Overweight and Unmarried: One Woman's Story of How Her Family Drove Her Off the Internets.
shrift - May 14, 2009 4:57:18 pm PDT #19589 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In less whiny news, I managed to score a pair of earrings because Steph mentioned that she'd managed to score a pendant from the seller: [link]