And in the category of: WTF?
I give you the following exchange between R. and myself, which took place in the car on Monday, driving home from the disgustingly-hot low desert…
R.: I could live there.
SB: Huh?
R.: I could live there, on that hill.
SB: What hill?
R.: THAT hill. That elegantly-shaped hill.
SB: [Still not sure what he’s talking about] You mean THAT hill? That thing stuck out in the middle of nowhere?
R.: Yeah, that lovely, lava-rock, black hill, in all its isolated splendor.
SB: [Choking] You have GOT to be on drugs.
R.: No. Why? Whaddya mean? [Pause] I LIKE that hill. It’s a great hill.
SB: It’s tiny. It’s like a pinpoint of a hill.
R.: That’s why I like it. It’s elegantly-shaped.
SB: Whaaahh? Elegantly-whaaahhh? If you stepped outside your door, you’d plunge 100 feet into sharp malpais rock. It’s unliveable.
R.: I could take a helicopter in. Land on my roof.
SB: Key word here being “my.” YOUR roof. YOUR house. Not mine.
R.: Why are you snapping pictures of it if you hate it so much?
SB: [Snort] Are you kidding? I can already see the post’s title now: “And in the category of: WTF?”
R.: Well, if you’re going to blog about it, then I’m going to say something quotable…
SB: [Thought bubble only: “like you haven’t said plenty already?”]
R.: It’s shaped like a scoop of Hagen Daz ice cream.
Very good stuff. Husband-wife exchanges. Mine always include me saying something, him ignoring it, and then him bring it up 1/2 an hour later like he just thought of it. Oy!
Comment by: christie - 07.21.2007 - 3.12 pm
It does look a bit ice cream like. But I still wouldn’t live on it.
Comment by: Aimee - 07.21.2007 - 3.42 pm
Maybe he could be all hobbity and live IN the hill. Because I think there might more room that way.
Comment by: Maia - 07.21.2007 - 4.26 pm
Your husband wants to live on a scoop of Hagen Daz! Love it!!! He can call it Hagen Daz Hill.
Comment by: Cavatica - 07.21.2007 - 8.11 pm
What flavor???
Comment by: Julie - 07.21.2007 - 9.57 pm
Now that’s good stuff. heh.
Comment by: Jacquie - 07.22.2007 - 7.41 am
Honestly? I thought it was a mound of construction dirt or something. But I like Maia’s idea.
Comment by: Anne Marie - 07.22.2007 - 10.09 am
I’m just sitting here giggling at this whole interchange….I have no other words but “that’s fantastic…”!!!
Comment by: Kelli - 07.22.2007 - 11.05 pm
Okay, that’s officially whack. I think I have finally found someone who can have a more obliquely wierd conversation than I can…
Comment by: FDChief - 07.23.2007 - 5.23 am
Well, it *would* be easily defendable. And he could do a bit of terrace farming, a la Trincheras Culture. But he would get very lonely without you and the Bee!!
Comment by: atomic mama - 07.23.2007 - 7.07 pm
Living on a Hagen Daz hill in the desert? My only response is wondering if he’d been in the heat a little too long.
Comment by: walternatives - 07.24.2007 - 11.28 am