Mutton, Meat Market and Me
I swear the supermarket is the over the hill meat market. Hopefully though the actual meat there isn’t over the hill, but if it was it would be called mutton right? If it is old lamb. Hogget is a juvenile delinquent lamb. And why do old lambs get a new name but old chickens are just old chickens? I am not so sure the chickens really appreciate this…or maybe the old lambs feel discriminated against. I really don’t like lamb of any age.
I am totally getting off the point here but I was so hit on at the supermarket today by The Frenchman. Only he doesn’t know that I know who he is. As soon as I crossed his path in the parking lot I thought I knew him. Black Porsche, loud and grumbling, revving the engine as I walked by. Truthfully, I thought he was having a hard time with the clutch. He has longish salt and pepper hair and he owns the French Antiques place down the road.
It didn’t come to me right away who he is. And not even when he spoke to me did it dawn on me who he is. But he made it clear he wanted to interact with me. Cutting me off in the pre-bagged lettuce aisle.
I kept thinking it was The Frenchman who owned the antique place down the road, but because of his voice box he had no french accent. I guess if you have had a trachiotomy in the woods and you have a french accent, do you get a french voice box… The whole way home, yes all three minutes of the ride, I was racking my brain about who this guy was, then it came to me, it had to be The Frenchman I had met years ago on a summer night before The Dish and I were married. When we smoked and he joined us outside for a cigarette. Why hadn’t it come to me before who he was. Well duh, because his voice box is from the woods and not France, apparently.
I can’t help but thinking that I should really stop dreaming about smoking because it’s totally bad for you and your french accent and every morning when I wake up having had a dream that I am driving down the road with The Dish and we are smoking like three cigarettes each at the same time, I feel guilty that I smoked…in my dreams. No matter how fun it seemed at the time.
I don’t want to lose my accent ever.
P.S. This is in no way meant to be offensive to people with voiceboxes or trachiotomies. It is however something that happened to me and this was my thought process about the whole thing and hopefully it is just a temporary condition and he really didn’t seem to mind it at all.





