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Who to Shoot for Dinner?
Certainly one way to make sure there is enough food to go around.
I am sure everyone has been enjoying their end of lock-down social distanced reunions. The typical jokes and jibes flow like lemmings in search of a cliff.
How long has it been since you had a hair cut? What no razor blades during lock-down, you’re going Neanderthal? My nails! Surely nail salons are and essential service? Wow, so you chose to eat your way through lock-down, or was the gym closed? Yada yada yada. The normal garbage trade of inane comments that’s why we love our friends.
As we got past the initial ‘niceties,’ we fell into a more familiar groove. The conversation drifted to the faces we hadn’t seen and how it would be good to ignore social distancing voodoo and just have a party and catch up.
Several of the gang starting make a list and the serviette had to be replaced. Why they were not just using their phones was beyond me. Maybe it was a virus thing?
I decided I should attempt to help the planning stages. This, I know, is usually frowned upon by my girlfriend. She says she loves me, I am special… fawn fawn, stroke the cat… but she also reminds me that socially I have an acute ability to stick my foot in my mouth. When she saw my eagerness to contribute, I felt her temperature rise, the opposite of the barometer drop…