Overheard at Table 3: Peacemaker

There was a great line in the movie "The Suicide Squad" when Peacemaker says, 

"I love peace ... and I don't care how many men, women, and children I have to kill to get it."

That is such the American way.

Especially the way of Conservatives.

Overheard at Table 3: Libby and Conner Discuss Feelings

Libby: I just think you need to be able to express your feelings in a healthy way.

Conner: I'll express my feelings with my fist in your FUCKIN FACE!

Libby: Yeah, that's not really what I meant.

Overheard at Table 2: My Doula

- When my ex-wife was expecting our child, she wanted a doula.  I told her to get one named "Oblongata" so that she could refer to her as "My Doula Oblongata"

- I can see why she divorced you

Overheard at Table 1: Twentieth Anniversary of 911

Billy: SO ... it's the twentieth anniversary.

Joe: Yup.

Jim: How we gonna mark it?

Bob: With sedition, look like.

Billy: You'd think we'd'a gotten more out of what came after that day.

Joe: More like what?

Jim: I dunno, like, more unity.

Bob: There was unity, for about a month or so.

Billy: Nothin' much after that, though.

Joe: True.

Jim: Hate to say it, but it looks like they won.

Bob: Ultimately.  Yeah.

Overheard at Booth 3: Music to Write

You don't get it.  You just don't get it.  I have music in my head.  I've got stories to write.

I get it, I get it, you don't want to help around the house.  But I work just as hard as you and I can't keep up with the sweeping, the cleaning, the cooking, the laundry, while you go off and play your guitar.

That's the point: I don't PLAY MY FUCKING GUITAR!

Keep your voice down!

I - don't - play - my - guitar.  I don't write.  I don't to anything except help around the house.

Oh so that's it.  You don't want to help.

That's not what I said.  All I'm saying is that if I could just have an hour, just an hour, a day.

And you don't think I don't want an hour a day to myself?  You don't think I'd just like to relax in a hot bubble bath, drink a glass of wine and just relax?

YOU CAN!   DO IT!

No, because I have to clean the house or it'll never get done!

But I help you clean the house all the time!

And you do such a shitty job that I have to go behind you and redo it!

Then let me play guitar!  GOD!

Overheard at Table 4: Christian Counseling

So Gary and I are in Christian counseling, because honestly I just can't take his shit any more and I just want him gone.  But yeah, sure I agreed to go.  For the sake of the kids, and all that yadda yadda ...

and the counselor's sitting there and he's wanting us to walk through what separation would be like and he asks, "So if Gary were to move out, where do you think he should go?" and honestly all I could think of to say was "Hell is the first thing that comes to mind."

Overheard at Table 3: Singles and the COVID Drought

Lucky Moran: Sometimes on Twitter, when there are a few ladies who talk about not having had sex in months or years ...

Otis Redwing: Oh yeah, that COVID drought... really hit the singles hard.

Lucky: ...sometimes, part of me, as a gentleman, you know, I want to offer my services.  But then, I think to myself, that'd be unfair.  I mean, I'm a lousy lay, and it's unfair for someone's first time back in the saddle to be such a horrible disappointment.

Otis: That ... and you've got a wife.

Lucky: That too ... I mean, at this age, I've only got enough energy to disappoint ONE woman, y'know.

Otis: Apparently I do know.  Now.