Day Two: What does "shortly" mean?
C & V: "Why are you calling the Holiday Inn?"
R: "To remind them what 'shortly' means!"
This lovely humid morning has brought us back from a useless trip to the airport at 4:30am (from the $200. hotel room we had to book last-minute last night) to find out that we need to go back once again to wait in line in hopes of getting a seat on tonight's Tam flight.
We've met some Greeks heading to Greece, a nice Liverpool-Dublin couple, a $200. bar tab, and a nice-looking Bahama guy, and have befriended many a stranded traveller who grunts every time we say the word "Varig."
With any luck, we'll be sipping camparenhas by tomorrow night and STILL be laughing like hyenas as we are right now.
What's to be done? We'll write a book, "The No-Nonsense Guide to Being a Global Teaching Fellow" (Lesson One: Be prepared to get fucked over at every turn. Bend over, motherfucker!")
NB: I would post a photo but we're not looking so good right now. ;>
posted by Vicki @ 8:40 AM
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2 Comments:
Lesson Two: Shocking friends at home with such shocking phrases! LOL Miss you already!! If it were a movie, you could grab a bottle of Herbal Essences and after a few dramatic shrieks, emerge from the airport washroom swinging your freshly blown-out hair :) Good luck to the three of you fine travelling beauties :) I hope your next post is from a salsa club!!!!!!! :)
Love L
Here's a new word for you:
BOHICA
That would be:
Bend Over Here It Comes Again
Very useful for such times. We used it daily at this horrible ad agency I worked for 10 years ago. We even wrote it on the dry erase board and had a good, evil laugh and the supervisors were none the wiser.
So, a scenario: "Design staff, here are 10 top priority jobs for you to finish by noon. Hurry up because we sure as hell aren't offering overtime pay."
BOHICA!! It's like a rallying cry. :)
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