Life?
A converation overheard on the train:
‘Hi Joan*, fancy seeing you here. It’s been ages since we last saw each other. How’s your new house extension? Is it finished yet?’
‘Yes. It’s really nice thanks.’
‘Oh, yes?’
‘The best thing is that the kids have their own rooms and that we’ve got a cupboard for the ironing board’
‘Really?’
‘Yes, it’s just the right size for the ironing board.’
‘That’s useful. Can you keep the hoover in there too?’
‘Yes, I put both of them in the same cupboard.’
‘Oh, I do that too.’
‘And you know how we used to have that grey hoover? Well, I gave it to Mary and bought a new one. It’s grey too, but that slightly darker shade of grey.’
‘Oh, I know that shade. And it fits in the cupboard?’
‘Yes, right alongside the ironing board. I bought a new ironing board cover too’
‘Really?’
‘Yes, it’s lovely, all yellow but with a bit of green to go with those curtains in the kitchen, you know the ones?’
‘Yes, well, that cupboard sounds really good.’
‘It is good, yes. We might even put a shelf in!’
‘Now that would be useful.’
‘Yes, maybe two if I can convince Jack to do it…’
‘Well, this is my stop. It’s been lovely to see you and catch up. We really must meet up soon’.
* names changed to protect the boring
Tags: mindless minutiae
October 1st, 2008 at 8:49 am
What a laugh you gave me… I needed that! You can’t make these things up, you can only be lucky enough to bear witness to it :)
October 1st, 2008 at 10:00 am
You mist the cnversation when she got home and repeated it all to her hubby!
October 1st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Hello Sarah, I’m pleased that you liked it although I do feel a little guilty about listening in and sharing the private details of her cupboard contents with the world. The best/most disturbing thing about it was that they were not old, probably in their 30s.
BLTP, yes the at-home repeating of the days events would have made for riveting listening. Although perhaps we under-estimate her husbands interest in cupboards and hoover colours?
October 1st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I was assuming he’d be as rapt as she was .
October 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Sorry, you are right BLTP, I am being sexist in assumptions here!
October 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
What I wouldn’t give for cupboard space for my ironing board. It clatters against the wall every time I open the kitchen door. Ho hum.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I feel really guilty now Roman Empress.
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I love it.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
NEVER feel guilty about earwigging, Cocktails. Exchanges like that were meant to be immortalised. On holiday I heard two American ladies spend twelve minutes – I timed it – discussing how they liked their eggs cooked. It was marvellous.
October 7th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
I don’t feel guilt about earwigging ISBW. I feel guilty about under-estimating the importance of cupboard space and reporting it.
Nice to see you here Haru!