A Conversation at a Bar During Lunch Yesterday
Daniel: What are we doing tonight?
Eli: Well Mark invited us over to his place for ice cream so we'll be going to that.
Daniel: Sweet. And . . . is that my shirt?
Eli: Huh? Oh this? Mind your own business please.
Daniel: This IS my business. You are wearing my clothes again!
Krishelle: So this is really a thing? He really wears your clothes?
Daniel: When he picked me up at the airport last week, every single thing he was wearing belonged to me.
Eli: Well should I have come naked instead?!
Krishelle: Why is that the alternative? Why wouldn't you just go wearing your own clothes?
Daniel: Well, in his defense, all of his clothes were dirty at the time.
Eli: Yeah! So back off, Krishelle!
Krishelle: So why didn't you just do laundry when you ran out of clothes?
Daniel & Eli: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Krishelle: What? Why is that funny?
Daniel: Eli doesn't do laundry. It's not something he does.
Eli: Yeah. And Daniel failed to leave me four weeks worth of clothes before he left so eventually I ran out of everything and had to start wearing stuff multiple times. It was really terrible.
Daniel: And I already apologized for that. But I'm just wondering why you are wearing my shirt now after I did laundry two days ago?
Eli: I'm doing try-outs with "your" clothes to decide which to take home with me in September.
Daniel: Um . . .
Eli: Oh. Just got a text. Ugh. Mark says that instead of going to his place there is going to be some party at a restaurant for a woman named "Suzanne" and we are invited to that.
Daniel: Do we have to go?
Krishelle: Who's Suzanne?
Eli: No idea.
Daniel: We don't even know who this lady is. She's probably a serial killer. Let's not go.
Woman at the Bar: Uh . . . I'm Suzanne.
Daniel, Krishelle, & Eli: . . . HI SUZANNE!!! NICE TO MEET YOU!!!
Suzanne: You don't have to come if you don't want to. But it really isn't going to be a big party or anything.
Daniel: I'm sure it's going to be great! I think we will come!
Eli: You betcha!
Daniel: [out of the side of his mouth] when did you start saying "you betcha?!"
Eli: [out of the side of my mouth] uncomfortable things happening inside of me!
Suzanne: No worries. I just wanted to let you know I'm Suzanne before you started saying anything else that you might not want spread throughout the island.
[long awkward silence]
Eli: So Suzanne, do you think this shirt fits me or would it be better on a giant person?
~It Just Gets Stranger
This is a Very Small Island
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