+ overheard: “after my palm reading last week i really had a come to jesus moment about my health.”
+ actual pickup line used on me in a cafe: “so which Meyers-Briggs are you?” he then proceeded to guess my MB type based on my sandwich order.*
+ flyer left on my car: “free organic dry cleaning with purchase of a solar-power pizza!”
+ upon meeting a potential landlord: “o-m-g! i totally used to have, like, the exact same one!”** we weren’t talking about shoes, here. we were talking about the $45,000 BMW M Roadster that, through happy kismet/the generosity of my brother, was mine to drive for the weekend. the car did, however, put me at a significant disadvantage when it came to negotiating rental terms: “$1300/month is really a lot for me,” she says as she rolls back the top on the roadster, dons sunglasses and a headscarf, ala audrey hepburn, and roars off down hwy 1, pacific ocean glittering in the rear view mirror.
* goat cheese and avocado with celery, walnut pesto, and watercress on multigrain. gastronomically, if not culturally or economically, i have come home. though i am still unclear as to where my love for the chevre-avo combo places me on the Meyers-Briggs grid.
** please read with your best so-cal valley girl voice setting turned to FULL