Five On Friday #1 – Randomites

I’m starting a new Friday tradition for the blog. (Saweet!)

Each “Five On Friday” will bring you an awesome new list of 5.

Maybe 5 recipes. 5 jokes. 5 cool links. 5 juicy bits from my week. Or 5 randomites like tonight’s list. (And of course I’ll take requests.)

So here goes Five On Friday #1!

1. Have you eaten fresh plums and nectarines chopped up in a white bowl with a blue rim? It’s worth doing at least once.

2. Airbags used to be reserved exclusively for Drivers. Everyone else could fly out the window. Good luck. But the Drivers…those folks were given a little face pillow so that they could survive. Only so that society could later feel vindicated by putting them in jail.

3. Sitting in a parking lot in the back seat of a white Camry. Knees curled up against the back of the front seat. The car is running. The heat is on. It’s 10:12 pm. Staring out the back window you watch the women walk by. That One bounces up and down in her high heeled boots, dry cleaned slacks, and sand colored trench coat. Her dark tries to keep up with her and she thinks about how great her life is. Or how she doesn’t want to go home to her cats again. I couldn’t tell.

4. This One walks looking down at her legs. She likes what she sees. Her legs. Her socks. Her very striped, very high knee socks. Her funny little shoes. Oh, and her knee caps! She sees the hem of her skirt above her knee. She walks face down with a smile inside. It’s been a while since she felt so proud of herself. She walks looking at her legs and her striped knee-high socks so that she can remember she’s good and everything is okay.

5. Our friend came over and was sitting at my desk. Here’s a snippet of chatter…

Friend: You have a lot of pens.

Me: Yeah, I love pens.

Friend: You must have a lot going on in your mind.

Me: <Wait. Is he saying he doesn’t like pens?>