Happy Saturday. It’s good to be back at the bar. I’m a bit late, but I’m sure David will let me pick up the tab. The patio is closed now, so there are a few more people in the bar. We have some catching up to do, and we’ll have a go at Linda’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “pop.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
SoCS by Linda G. Hill
I think we will enjoy.
“You’re late!”
“Hello, David. Yes, I’m late, albeit only a few minutes.”
“I thought you were going to skip out on me again.”
“I didn’t ‘skip out’ on you, I went out for the day with our daughter.”
“Well, the result was the same.”
“Look, I’m sorry you had to drink alone.”
“Don’t be sorry, Dan — he didn’t show.”
“Hi Curley. David left you hanging?”
“He did. However, he did order this John Howell’s Special. I put it on your tab along with this cold glass of Modelo.”
“Thanks Curley.”
“Cheers, Dan.”
“Cheers? I thought you might offer an apology.”
“Apology, after what you put me through?”
“You stayed home, what exactly did I put you through?”
“My wife had her book club over.”
“Oh? What are they reading?”
“Labels on wine bottles, as far as I could tell.”
“I take it you didn’t join them, how bad could that have been?”
“They were in the Family Room. The room with the big TV. I ended up watching college football in the bedroom.”
“That couldn’t have been too bad.”
“I was in bed. I fell asleep and I missed that big play in the last seventeen seconds. Anyway, where did you go?”
“We went to the Peabody Museum and then…”
“Stop. Don’t tell me. You had dinner at Pepe’s didn’t you?”
“We did!”
“Did you have to wait in line to get it?”
“Yeah, but only for about half an hour.”
“What kind of pizza did you get?”
“My daughter had a small vegetarian deal, olives, mushrooms and stuff. I had a small with onions, mushrooms and sausage.”
“You guys ordering a pizza?”
“No, Curley. Dan is telling me about his dinner at Pepe’s last week.”
“I love that place. Our pizza is good, but it can’t compete with theirs.”
“Still, if David’s hungry for a slice, we can order one.”
“I see him nodding, Dan. I’ll have them pop a meat lover’s into the oven.”
“Was there anything special at the museum, Dan?”
“No, but I had never been. Faith went there on a school field trip when she was a kid. We both love museums.”
“So, why were you late today?”
“I had to sign for a package.”
“Something special? Something expensive?”
“Nope, an AC adapter for my new laptop.”
“Didn’t it come with an adapter?”
“It did, but I like having a second one.”
“Why?”
“I sometimes take it into the kitchen to work for a long time, longer than the battery goes. And I use the second one when I travel.”
“What’s wrong with the first one?”
“Nothing, but the cord goes through a slot in my desk and then behind the leg. It’s a pain to disconnect and move.”
“I can see that. Who’d you buy it from?”
“Lemovo.”
“Whoa. I thought you said it wasn’t expensive. I would have guessed Amazon.”
“It was on sale at Lenovo for twenty percent less than Amazon, and they offered free shipping.”
“I wouldn’t have expected either of those things from Lenovo.”
“I could have paid for shipping if I wanted it a day earlier, but the shipping would have been more than the cost of the adapter.”
“Still, you would have been here on time.”
“Not exactly, but I would have had a hole in my budget about the size of a John Howell’s Special and a meat lover’s pizza.”
“Point taken. I hate those ‘pay to get it earlier’ offers. The free shipping usually arrives ahead of schedule anyway.”
“True in this case. This was supposed to come Tuesday. The paid shipping was for Monday, but I got the alert that it was out for delivery today.”
“That makes me feel better.”
“What? Why?”
“You didn’t plan to have your shipping interfere with our Saturday festivities.”
“I wouldn’t do that to you two weeks in a row, David.”
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