"greetings, danny boy! what's for supper?" cardigan hollered as he entered the Pub.
"pad see ew," answered blake as he poured his friend a beer.
"pad...what?"
"don't worry about it. you'll like it." blake handed him a beer and turned back to prepare the dish.
"it's great, gavin." sierra was waving him over with her chopsticks.
"i have no doubt. what's up with y'all tonight?"
"we're planning a girl's trip--just the three of us," marian exclaimed, indicating herself, sierra, and Mysterious Lurker as the "three."
"sounds like trouble," cardigan replied. "where are you going?"
"we haven't decided yet," the Lurker said. "i want to go to santa fe."
"i want to go to the bahamas," marian stated, "or some other place with a nice beach."
"where do you want to go, charles?"
"new york," sierra replied.
marian rolled her eyes. "you go to new york all the time. it's winter. we need to go someplace warm."
"besides, they put ketchup on their hot dogs there," the Lurker stated with distaste, eliciting sympathy shudders from cardigan and taylor.
"i thought it was 'catsup,'" blake noted, bringing a steaming bowl of pad see ew over to cardigan.
"'catsup' sounds gross," marian made a face.
"either way, it's actually derived from cantonese 'ke-chap' meaning 'eggplant sap.'" sierra explained, stealing a piece of pork from cardigan's bowl.
"i think i'd rather have cat soup," taylor observed.
"that's a different cantonese word," sierra explained. "it's--"
"no talk about cat soup in my pub!" blake declared.
"you brought it up," sierra murmured.
cardigan turned to the Lurker. "why do you want to go to santa fe, uh...say, what is your name, anyway? we can't just keeping calling you 'the Lurker.'"
blake stopped walking toward the bar and turned around, interested in hearing the answer.
"i don't know," the Lurker mused. "i kind of like being Mysterious Lurker." she looked over toward blake. "don't you think it suits me, danny?"
blake muttered under his breath and stormed off behind the bar and began wiping the counter and other barkeeperly things like that.
the Lurker smiled and turned back toward cardigan. "the food, the jewelry, the architecture, the jewelry, the history, the jewelry....you know."
"and why do you want to go to new york, charles?"
"i know where the good chocolate is," she replied.
"so you need a place with a beach, jewelry, and good chocolate?" cardigan grinned. "i've know the perfect destination: cozumel."
"you know a place with good chocolate in cozumel?" sierra asked, surprised.
cardigan nodded. "yep. there's a place called Mr. Sanchos Beach Club that has a dessert called 'chocolate donkey pie.'"
"hey! no talk about donkey pie in my pub!" blake hollered.
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i think there is some interesting tension between Mysterious Lurker and blake... :)
BTW, marian and i are VERY similar. I was looking at cruises that go to cozumel and beach-y areas these past few days!! :D
I was just thinking that Mysterious Lurker behaves as if she has a crush on Danny. Maybe it's that "he may give me free drinks" thing. :) Girls like that kind of stuff. Strangely, the idea of any alcohol, even free alcohol, makes me want to gag. I think I may be off of drinking for awhile... :P
i'm reading your mind, mira. that's all--nothing to worry about. btw, your aura is purple! purple! your aura is purple!!!
now that you mention it, i've never seen Mysterious Lurker pay for a single thing....hmmm....of course, i haven't seen anybody paying for anything. i wonder how blake stays in business? i can't tell if ML has a crush on blake, or if it's the other way around, or what. i don't think either one of them knows, either. there is something there, though....
"your aura is purple"??? You've been away from Texas too long, boy, down there you're liable to get shot for saying something like that. BTW, while we're on that subject, any interest in a "Texan By the Grace of God" belt buckle? Seriously tempted to order one for myself, at least:
http://www.beltbuckleshop.com/page/belt/PROD/red/1836pc
i'm afraid i can't pull off the giant belt buckle look anymore. i think i'm ready for the tweed jacket with elbow patches look. the purple aura line is from "almost famous," one of my favorite movies of all time!!!
HAHAHA how interesting -- i've been evolving in the opposite direction, i used to be Mr. Tweed and for a while now i've been into the belt buckle thing. Maybe I'll return to my elbow patched academic roots later on...
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