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Sunday, January 04, 2009

The Definition of "Neat"

Yesterday I was out running errands. Alright I was out running errands because I am completely neurotic about my younger son's surgery. While I have little control over his pain management, I have total control over purchasing boxes of Mac and Cheese and other such items that others who have parented through this surgery have told me to stock up on. Plus I was starting to sound like a water buffalo when I was exercising and realized that it was time to refill my inhaler prescription!

As I was strapping myself into the car all set to go home I caught a glimpse of something absolutely terrifying in the rear view mirror: my eyebrows. Realizing I had just enough time I drove over to the eyebrow waxing place and got my problem fixed. Then I called the Big Giraffe and had the following conversation:

Alex Elliot (AE): I just got my eyebrows waxed. I think the esthetician is on the phone with her friends telling them that she just met Michael Dukakis.
Big Giraffe(BG): I'm sure she did not think that.
AE: It was pretty bad. She had to use a brush and scissors. I've never had that done.
BG: That's pretty neat!
AE: Excuse me? Neat would be if the cat brought me my slippers. Neat is not having gigantic scary eyebrows.
BG: I still think it's cool.
AE: I'm off to Verizon now.
BG: Why?
AE: Because every call I make on my cell phone is automatically on speaker phone. That's why I'm calling you from the car. I don't want everyone to know that every couple months I could be mistaken for Micheal Dukakis.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Neat eyebrows are well groomed eyebrows.

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