African Queen June 29, 2004
Posted by BatWeasel in : General , trackbackThis is to tide ya’ll over until AC gets his camping post done!
My husband has been working the night shift at Motomart these past few weeks, and some real characters come in there. One rather scruffy man comes by early every morning to pick up the previous day’s stale doughnuts for his dog and chat with Jerod, so I’ve heard about him before. Today when Jerod came home he was absolutely awestruck at the story this man had told him (bear in mind, my husband is a teensy bit gullible).
Apparently the two had gotten into a discussion about meeting people on the Internet, and this man was telling Jerod about this gorgeous babe he’s been talking to who just sent him pictures of her. And then he mentioned that he saw a really beautiful woman in real life yesterday - an African queen who came into the place he works and proposed to him because she wants to marry a white man (and by queen he meant a real queen, the ruler of some country in Africa). She showed him pictures of her all dressed up, to prove she was a real queen, and said he would have all the money he wanted. Regretfully the man told her he was married already, and she left.
Jerod believed every word of it and was rather offended when I was unable to control my giggles anymore. We live in Shelbyville, population 5000, and even if this man works in Decatur that’s hardly a town likely to attract foreign royalty. And then the thought that she picked this man out of all the men she must have seen on her way to rural central Illinois… it was just too much!
I told Jerod tomorrow morning to ask this guy for the queen’s name so we can get her hooked up with AC. You’ve always wanted to be a king and live in Africa haven’t you?
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hmm never really considered it, but I think I could adjust.