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My reading of choice for this trip is Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Enjoying the warm breeze, the sun on my skin and the gentle swoosh of the ocean, I was thoroughly involved with Robert Jordan and Maria, when suddenly, a shadow was cast over me. I looked up from my book and was surprised to see leather, burnt, saggy appendages coupled with drooping other parts, a teeny tiny Speedo and a pair of Ray-Bans looking down at me. "You are reading Hemingway?" he asked me in an unmistakeably Italian accent.
I was exceedingly thankful that my eyes were hidden by my sunglasses, for I could not stop staring at the heavy, lopping stomach that seemed to be inching closer and closer to my face. "Yes," I answered, while thinking "Please don't let that come any closer..."
"How is it that you can read such a book in English?"
"Well, I'm from America." That is one small "bathing suit."
"Ahhh! American! How you come here?"
"Just for a little break." My lord... he is orange.
"Not many Americans here. Americans usually go to Caribbeans."
"Yes." The folds in his neck flap when he talks.
"I'm from Treviso. Hemingway was near there."
"Treviso?" So that's what a jiggling bowlful of jelly looks like.
"Yes, yes. Near Venice."
"Oh... yes." Could that bathing suit be any smaller?
I was embarrassed out of my mind and kept my answers as short as possible. Taking the hint, the old man frolicked into the sea.
Ah, the joys of travel.
5 comments:
hee-larry-ous!!! i'm SO FREAKING jealous that you are on the beach right now!! i look out my window and see more snow piling up on the deck. :) please please please get a nice tan for me!!
miss u!
soo funny Linda. That totally sounds like you. sounds like you're enjoying life. :)
hope you're having fun in thailand! phuket! i wanna go one day.
i like the name of the city..
phuket... PHUKET!!
i didnt know mrs kang read your blog~ shes a cool cat.
caught up with your blogs now that im back in the office~~ im kinda happy to be back in... well.. now im rdy to go back for another snowstorm... O_O
I'm a fan of saggy appendages...
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