Your Alibis Your Telling-Me-Whys

Today, I had a fender bender I didn’t realize I’d had until someone else broke the news. Didn’t hurt my car a bit, but I scraped a bit of someone else’s paint. Thus, I am somewhat bummed.

Raised bed from which you can practically hear seed potatoes howling with laughter.

Raised bed from which you can practically hear seed potatoes howling with laughter.

In related news: last time a crowd looked at me like that, I left that backwater hellhole and never looked back.

The Night Life Baby

This car-car is a paper weight-weight.

This car-car is a paper weight-weight.

Tata: My car is in four pieces.
Corinne: Four pieces? What happened?
Tata: Pete took it apart while Mercury was retrograde, but now that Mercury’s gone direct, special tools have started arriving.

My sisters snickered.

Tata: Just before Thanksgiving, our housemate came home with a frozen turkey he didn’t know what to do with, so I offered to drop it off at Elijah’s Promise.
Anya: Oh yeah! Good idea!
Tata: Well, you’d think so, right up ’til the moment you pull up to the soup kitchen in a Mercedes.

My sisters’ jaws dropped.

Tata: And it doesn’t matter how your husband acquired the Mercedes, because suddenly –
Anya: YOU’RE THE WHITE LADY ASKING IF THERE’S VALET PARKING.