i almost forgot. one of the funniest things that happened during my visit with my new apache friend is that when he was telling me this story about how he and his chubby wife never actually got married but they've been together for 25 years so they're legally considered married, he stopped in the middle of a sentence and said "oh i have that same shirt only mine's a sweatshirt." and i was wearing the weirdest shirt i own. it's this shirt that molly gave me. it says "israel" but it's spelled out in drawings of camels and umbrellas and jews. and i almost NEVER wear it outside of my apartment because a) i've never been to israel; b) i don't want to seem like i'm mocking israelis; c) i don't want to give palestinians an excuse to attack me; and d) it's a weird shade of grey.
Monday, December 29, 2008
more about my apache friend
i almost forgot. one of the funniest things that happened during my visit with my new apache friend is that when he was telling me this story about how he and his chubby wife never actually got married but they've been together for 25 years so they're legally considered married, he stopped in the middle of a sentence and said "oh i have that same shirt only mine's a sweatshirt." and i was wearing the weirdest shirt i own. it's this shirt that molly gave me. it says "israel" but it's spelled out in drawings of camels and umbrellas and jews. and i almost NEVER wear it outside of my apartment because a) i've never been to israel; b) i don't want to seem like i'm mocking israelis; c) i don't want to give palestinians an excuse to attack me; and d) it's a weird shade of grey.
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WHY WOULD YOU NOT WEAR IT WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD REASONS TO WEAR IT THAT I DON'T EVEN FEEL IT NECESSARY TO LIST THEM ALL BECAUSE THEY ARE SO ACHINGLY OBVIOUS.
I AM SO UPSET ABOUT THIS.
BUT IT'S A WEIRD SHADE OF GREY!
if you would've given me the SWEATSHIRT VERSION that my apache friend has, i would wear that ALL THE TIME. and everyone in the neighborhood would know me and my apache friend as "the twins." people would say things like "hey, it's the twins!" or "hey, it's those israel-sweatshirt-twins!" or "hey twins! cool shirts!" we'd be the talk of the town. and it'd all be thanks to you. but you blew it, molly.
you blew it.
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