Thursday, September 20, 2007

Short Story

One time there was an old man who owned an apartment in Amsterdam. A lovely young woman by the name of J rented a room in the apartment and her sister was staying with her for a while. To prepare for the old man coming back to his apartment to get some medical tests done in Amsterdam, C and her best friend KC cleaned and organized to the best of their ability.
However...things were not as bright and shiny as they seemed. C attempted to fix the bedside table drawer in the old man's room with "super glue" that she found in the fridge and in turn, glued the entire drawer shut. The shower drain was so clogged with the long luscious hair of the three ladies that as soon as the water was turned on, the shower nearly overflowed onto the bedroom carpet (of the old man's room). To fix said issue, C and KC attemped to decipher the Dutch cleaners under the kitchen sink, found one with a picture of a drain on it, and poured it down the drain. Not only did it not work, it clogged the drain even more. Things only got better from there. J thought it would be a good idea to defrost the iced over tiny freezer, and did so forgetting about the bottom tray. Right after the old man arrived and sat down to watch TV, KC noticed leaks coming out of the fridge. As soon as she opened the fridge, KC and C saw that all of the food was soaked with cold water. "Wait" said C, "I know - we have to empty out the bottom tray because J defrosted the freezer." Keep in mind that the bottom tray existed high above both girls' heads. Ever so carefully the girls pulled the tray out and then SWOOOOOSH - the water went EVERYWHERE. All over the kitchen, their clothes, the trash can, everything...
Thankfully, the old man was distracted by National Geographic, so the girls ran into his bedroom, grabbed all of the towels they could, mopped up everything as fast as possible, and shoved the towels into the washer. It was excellent timing because at that moment the old man's daughter walked in with groceries for him.
C and KC go into the bedroom and began laughing at their ridiculous luck with timing. At that moment, they here a grunt from the old man (oh, god - what now?). Turns out the washing machine decided to break at that moment, but the old man is scratching his head and puzzled because all of the towels in the machine are soaking wet, so it MUST be working. KC and C exchange glances and decide to play dumb and not tell him that the reason his towels are all wet was because of the freezer catastrophe.
The next day, the old man discovers the shower issue. He walks up to C, grabs her ponytail and grunts "You...long hair. Me...no hair" and points in the direction of the drain. C puts her winning smile on and says "Yes, but J...MUCH longer hair." It's always good to blame it on the older sister - J I love you!!! :)
As for the drawer that C glued shut, nothing was said.

And might I add, I may be blonde, but I have yet to drive off with the gas nozzle still in the tank like my mother used to do. Oh and to add to that...she locked her keys in her car the other day while the car was on with the air conditioning running. Gotta love it!

Shout out to all my blonde friends!! HOLLA!!

1 comment:

thnnscggn said...

This is perfect silent film fodder. I can't help but picture all of this in black and white low-quality film stock with melodramatic/ragtime piano music going on in the background. It's just perfect: cut from the old man with an angry mug expression to an empty screen with the quote about him not having any hair, and then to C and KC shrugging...and so on and so forth.