chris told me i should post this story as a blog entry.
i went to subway on my lunch break and ordered, as always, a "veggie delight" which i guess is an attempt at making a sandwich with no meat sound as appetizing as a sanwich with no meat can sound.
while making my chip selection, the woman who'd been in line in front of me and was now sitting at one of the booths said "veggie delight? what's that? it ain't got no meat on it?"
to which i replied "no, i don't eat meat. seafood occasionally, but that's it."
"oh. that's why you so small. how long you been a vegetarian?"
"i don't know, 4 years or so."
and with a look of utter bewilderment she exclaimed "WHAT?!"
i don't think it's that funny of a story, except for how genuinely baffled she was at my dietary habits. it was as though she honestly had never heard of such a thing, and could not imagine what would possess someone to make such a decision.
for anyone wondering, my veggie delight was delicious. also, for any other vegetarians out there, bbq baked lays have chicken fat in them. who knew?
are you a voyeur? do you like reading blogs and looking at pictures of people you don't know? i do, that's for sure. i don't even know what the appeal is but once i start i can't stop. yesterday i was blog-hopping (via the "next blog" button at the top of a page) and wowza...people out there are nuts! i wish i had kept the links to some of these blogs.
i found one person who had posted the password to her online wedding photo album. i went through almost every damn photo of these soon-to-be-happily-married strangers. i saw their moms, their grandmothers, the little pre-wedding shenanigans, their friends, and their friends' hideously teal bridesmaids' dresses.
i also stumbled upon a serious goth woman. i say "serious" because she was for-real...body mods and hair extensions and gory photos and all of that. every entry was a sort of run-on-sentence poem about satan and darkness and pain and murder. amongst all the weird blood and gore photography there was also a picture of a newborn baby. which leads me to believe she's a mother. which is frightening, to say the least.
onto other things. things i am afraid of. i am terrified that i will be sucked into the addictive abyss of scrapbooking. my love for interesting paper and cutting things up leads me to believe that at the first sign of domestic boredom i will not be able to fight the urge to start creatively documenting even the most minor of events. any otherwise enjoyable outing will be marred by my obsession over what color foam i will use to letter "a day at the park". god help me if i ever have a baby.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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See, this was hilarious, especially the bit about scrapbooking. You really need to do this more often.
nothing interesting ever happens to me...
(you see, this is foreshadowing. if my life were a movie, my making this statement would mean that some life-shattering event would befall me in the next 30 minutes or so)
when the woman questioned your vegetarian status, i like to imagine her eyeballs popping out and spinning around, like in a cartoon. as if she was so shocked, she defied all manner of physics, causing her eyes to leap from her skull. but... that might not have happened.
well she did have rather large eyes, so minus the spinning part, that image isn't too far off.
Being a vegitarian is difficult...especially down here in the south. I usually get a veggie sandwich at Subway, myself...and it IS delicious, but have never had the veggie delight. Is that the patty thing? I think most people believe that a "God" literally put animals here for the soul purpose of our consumption. I call those people "sheep" and it makes me feel better.
shane,
actually the "veggie delight" IS the veggie sandwich. one would think they could just call it "veggie sandwich" but i guess they feel like that's not interesting enough. i've had the veggie patty before, though (i can't remember what they call it). it's alright. i've only seen it on the menu at one location.
yes, yes. i agree. to those people i say: god also gave us the ability to discern what's good and bad for us, and the knowledge of how to grow really kick-ass vegetables and other non-meat foods. those people are indeed sheep. tasty tasty sheep.
We got us a veggie delight here in California, except it's a chinese restaurant that specializes in vegetarian food. its good, but the green paint they use inside could make you noxious if you stare at it too long.
spencer,
i've never been to california, but i think i want to move there anyway. i hear the weather is perfect. we have very few "vegetarian" restaurants here, though there are a number of places that have vegetarian options.
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