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Wherein Harold Pinter makes sense 4 years too late

on June 26, 2007

MindReader, FutureHousemate and I are in FutureHousemate’s living room.

I am aleady cooing over Grand Designs. Oh yes – houses and babies this week on Billygean.

“What’s that?” I say, looking at the strange contraption on the TV. It appears to be moving food from floor to floor. How cool!

“A dumb waiter,” MindReader says, raising a blond eyebrow.

I pause for a moment. I feel my face redden. I can’t even laugh.

“Oh,” I whisper.

“What?” FutureHousemate says, setting his tea down.

“I thought-” I say. “Oh God. I thought that the restaurant I worked at were calling me a dumb waiter.”

MindReader goes rather red.

It dawns on me further. “I never did get why I was putting the food in the wrong places. Oh God.”

MindReader stares at me for a moment.

I wish I had not spoken. Why can’t I just have these revelations privately?

“No wonder you were fired,” he says, eventually.


One Response to “Wherein Harold Pinter makes sense 4 years too late”

  1. billygean.co.uk says:

    I have not abandoned you. Blogger will not let me update.

    The error I get whenever I try to post or republish is:

    org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPConnectionClosedException: Connection closed without indication.

    If any of you techies could help I would appreciate it…

    BG

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