sometimes it takes for.eve.er to get a picture to email offa the iphone to the computer so's i can use it here. ::sigh::

so we sold the little soldier car and she now lives in a community of prefabricated homes. i was all like - that's a long way from princeton and my old man was all like - your pops didn't buy it new, maybe it started in a trailer park and now it's glad to be back. we have both anthropomorphized the car. aren't we cute! and i do hope what he said is true and that she's happy....

so what happened was that this oldish man wanted to purchase the little soldier, and i would say he's english-as-a-second-language, but he didn't actually adventure into the second language. he's sort of still embedded in the first. so, he brought his youngish grown-up son who has begun the adventure into a second language, english, and this youngish grown-up son has gotten about as far as here to the steak & shake, which is to say not too very far.

anyway. they settled on a price and the spanglishmen went to get their money. whilst they were gone, one-ringie-dingie-two-ringie-dingie... another guy calls and wants to buy the car. my old man is all like - well somebody already has gone to get his money but if he doesn't come back, i will call you. and then he is saying it again - well somebody already has gone to get his money but if he doesn't come back, i will call you. OMG! what part of this is the caller not getting? then, my old man is all like - well, did you come here and drive it? did you? no? well, the guy that went to get his money drove it so i guess that isn't you, is it?

heh. right. like -- "oh, i think it is me that went to get the money. yes, it is me. i will be right there." heh. NO.

and so i was like - how long do we wait? well, the buyer said it would be maybe 20 mins to get the money. so we are waiting and waiting and waiting. and, waiting. and, then they drive up! they get out of the piece of crap car they are driving and approach us at the piece of crap car they are purchasing - the oldish spanish-as-a-first-language man and the youngish english-as-a-second-language man - they approach us with the money in their hands. i mean, both mens both hands. each had a stack of about 6" of moneys clutched with both hands. o to the m to the g. so my old man is all like - do you run a strip club? and english-as-a-second-language is all like - no, no, poppy he work at ceecee pizza.

and i am wondering do they think "ceecee" is "¡sí! ¡sí!" -- yes! yes! pizza!

and then we counted the money three times and they were $2 over, so we gave them $2 back and then followed them to their prefab house and removed the license plate from the car and left her there. i wonder if they'll keep the monkey.