There's the one about the blind date I went on several years ago. On what was to become our first (not last) date, I decided I wanted to see him again when I heard the story of why he was a vegetarian.
When this fellow was a freshman in college, he and his roommates decided that they needed a theme for their dorm room decorations. And further, this theme would be the Wild West. And so they got cowboy hats and hay bales, and decided that the final finishing touch just had to be a cow skull. So where do suburban Ohio boys get a cow skull? Butcher, I guess. It's hard to imagine them going to, say, a slaughterhouse. This detail is fuzzy. Anyway, they got a whole cow head somewhere, and to release it of its non-decorative eyeballs, brains, skin, etc., they decided to boil it. So they boiled it all day, and the smell was so disgustingly bad that my poor date could never eat meat again. And that's why I decided to go out with him again.
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About Me
- Elizabeth
i was an assistant professor of English in the ROC. now i am a visiting assistant professor of English in the thinly veiled town of Whitesville, home of a big southern research university.
there are many travails to report in the life of such a person as myself, but you shan't find them here. if you are a student or a colleague, welcome! and never fear; your secrets are safe with me.
i enjoy staring, cooking, complaining, yoga, and the occasional bon mot.
most comments welcome, or email me: E.in.Whitesville at gmail dot com.
2 comments:
sth similar happened to me, only mine was after witnessing an entire pig slaughter which involves lots of boiling as well. that and a bet with my best friend that we couldn't go a month without meat.
will you go out with me?
well. yes. i will. but you also have made me realize that the fact that this guy when he was eighteen had decorating ambitions, and coherent ones at that, was part of the appeal. . .
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