| I was rooming with five gals and the band. We only could afford one room, so we had to rearrange the furniture periodically so that Al and the guys could rehearse. (Our furniture consisted of pale blue cafeteria tables and plastic chairs.) One day, as we were moving stuff, some crockery fell. Al leaped into the pile of broken dishes and came out with a half of a plate and a ceramic ear. (This was Al pre-eye surgery and moustache removal, by the way.) Al jumps over to Jim, and with some hysterical laughter, he puts the plate and the ear up to Jim’s head and bellows “Look! EARS! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHhahahah!” He then bounds over to Steve and repeats the laughing and the pronouncing of “Ears!” This made the entire room burst into loud, hysterical laughter of our own. (Maybe ya had to be there, and see the demented look on Al’s face, and the shocked one on Jim’s.) We were rolling on the ground, laughing our heads off, when a little girl came in and informed us “Mommies and Daddies, there’s open house tonight at my school, and Teacher wants you to come.” We looked at each other. Apparently, the girl had been adopted by all twelve of us. (So theoretically, I now have a child by Al, Jim, Steve, Bermuda AND Ruben...quite an accomplishment. ;) She was adorable.) Al leaps up from where he had been collapsed and started telling us this insane story about how “they’ll have to steal chairs from CHINA to seat us all…from CHINA and JAPAN and KOREA and MANCHURIA and OSLO!” Hilarious. I promise, the strongest thing I'm on is the caffeine in my Pepsi. My Take On It Next Dream |
| MultiParents and Ceramic Ears 03/16/01 |