Antique Hoosier
“Aircooled”
Have you ever strolled up to a display of food on a buffet or say a bakery glass counter and you scan the items...seeking out the items that appeal to you? The appearance, supposed texture, seasonings, sauce or lack of sauce... portion size, imagining the spice content, whether the item would be best served hot, room temperature, or chilled?
Ever go to a movie and arrive a bit early and you suffer through the previews of coming attractions....Action film....romantic comedy...indie surprise....chick flick?
Now.... in both matters you make your selection....you choose the food item that really appeals to you...it appears to have just the right level of spice and complexity... it looks like it is best served hot but you would be daring and try it at other temps as well. It comes to you on fairly nice tableware...you notice as you take it to your table that the china is in fact a cleverly disquised pressboard composition. The attendant hands you a fine napkin but inside is plastic "picnicware". You slice into your selection and it is bland.... no seasoning....no refinement at all....you've had Big Macs that resemble Beef Wellington compared to this offering. The meal just falls flat.
You see a particular "trailer" for a movie that is really interesting...it makes you laugh...it contains a bit of suspense and great dialouge. The actors seem to really counterbalance each other in an especially wonderful way. You decide you have to see this movie. When it premieres you attend the film and realize that the trailer was indeed the movie...that was all there was...somehow they built another 2 hours of totally unrelated waste of film around the 3 minute trailer. You leave unsatisfied.
Those scenarios in a nutshell describe my date last night. My first "date" in a long long time. I have discussed my dating here before so I appreciate being able to vent a bit. The woman that I took out I have admired from afar for months...we have been sort of friendly in business issues and I never really had the courage to ask her out. It turns out she has wanted to get together with me for a very long time but thought I was either not interested or was already in a significant realtionship. We both mutually discovered our interests in a brief way the Wednesday before Christmas when she asked me to attend a New Year's Eve party with her. I later suggested we might want to have dinner a few days prior to our first official date on New Year's Eve so as to break the ice.... she agreed. That was last night.... My feeling is that there is either chemistry or there is not...I wondered where that attraction chemistry escaped to as I spent dinner with her last night. I plan on attending the New Year's Eve party with her because apparently there will be some very interesting people there. That is unless she is simultaneously typing out a similar tale on her Facebook or blog this morning.
Ever go to a movie and arrive a bit early and you suffer through the previews of coming attractions....Action film....romantic comedy...indie surprise....chick flick?
Now.... in both matters you make your selection....you choose the food item that really appeals to you...it appears to have just the right level of spice and complexity... it looks like it is best served hot but you would be daring and try it at other temps as well. It comes to you on fairly nice tableware...you notice as you take it to your table that the china is in fact a cleverly disquised pressboard composition. The attendant hands you a fine napkin but inside is plastic "picnicware". You slice into your selection and it is bland.... no seasoning....no refinement at all....you've had Big Macs that resemble Beef Wellington compared to this offering. The meal just falls flat.
You see a particular "trailer" for a movie that is really interesting...it makes you laugh...it contains a bit of suspense and great dialouge. The actors seem to really counterbalance each other in an especially wonderful way. You decide you have to see this movie. When it premieres you attend the film and realize that the trailer was indeed the movie...that was all there was...somehow they built another 2 hours of totally unrelated waste of film around the 3 minute trailer. You leave unsatisfied.
Those scenarios in a nutshell describe my date last night. My first "date" in a long long time. I have discussed my dating here before so I appreciate being able to vent a bit. The woman that I took out I have admired from afar for months...we have been sort of friendly in business issues and I never really had the courage to ask her out. It turns out she has wanted to get together with me for a very long time but thought I was either not interested or was already in a significant realtionship. We both mutually discovered our interests in a brief way the Wednesday before Christmas when she asked me to attend a New Year's Eve party with her. I later suggested we might want to have dinner a few days prior to our first official date on New Year's Eve so as to break the ice.... she agreed. That was last night.... My feeling is that there is either chemistry or there is not...I wondered where that attraction chemistry escaped to as I spent dinner with her last night. I plan on attending the New Year's Eve party with her because apparently there will be some very interesting people there. That is unless she is simultaneously typing out a similar tale on her Facebook or blog this morning.
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