How appropriate.
Omigawd! Thanks Dan!
Friday evening I was knocking down a Stoly on the rocks when the phone rang. It was Cindy. Her car, the crapmobile, was giving her problems again. The steering wheel lock was not allowing her to turn the ignition key. After a lot of fiddling around, she finally got it to work, but didn't trust it, so she was gonna keep it running and take it to the crapmobile dealer. Michael was working so she asked me if I thought I could drive my truck and follow her to the crapmobile dealer.
"Sure. With my new cast it would be no problem."
She had to stop by her house to feed her dogs and let them out to do their business.
Sho' nuff, when she wheeled me out to my truck I was able to follow her to the crapmobile dealer and bring her back to my house and let her borrow my truck until the crapmobile gets fixed. This was the first time I had driven since the unfortunate wine glass incident. It was wonderful!
Her husband has the same make and model car for his company car. It's a year older than Cindy's crapmobile and has had no problems. As you may have guessed from Cindy's naming of her car, she has had nothing but problems with it.
We got back to my house and Cindy went out to look at my garden. I had lots of beans ready to be picked. She heard a loud scream from me inside the house. She came racing in to see what was wrong.
"What's the matter?"
"With my new cast, I can use a knife with my right hand! I can also use a fork with my right hand!" You know what that means?"
"No. What?"
"I can have a steak Saturday night!"
"It would be nice to invite some friends over to dinner and help you eat the beans that are ready to be picked."
"Sure. Let's do it."
So, Saturday Cindy took me grocery shopping. But first she had to take me to the new Fresh Foods store that just opened up in Dunwoody Village. Wow! It is an upscale grocery store. I bought our steaks there: prime aged hereford filet mignon.
Then we went to Kroger. Blah! Dull! Last week I used the lttle cart with a basket, but since we had my chair and nowhere to put it we hit on the idea of me pushing a shopping cart and Cindy pushing my chair. It was like a lttle train, and since I had the cart, I steered us. We didn't hit too many people.
When we finished shopping it was pouring rain so Cindy had to run out and get the truck and pick me and the groceries up at the curb. Since I have a pickup, most of the groceries went in the bed of the truck and got wet. Naturally, after we got back to my house and unloaded the truck the rain stopped. Figgers.
Anyway, I had Michael and Cindy over for steak, baked potato, and fresh string beans from the garden. We had smoked salmon with a nice rose that Michael brought before dinner. We would have had the salmon out on the Great Patio of Dunwoody but it was wet from the rain.
He also brought a syrah for the main course. The filets were incredible. Looks like I make Fresh Foods a regular Saturday afternoon stop. Being a creature of habit, I grill a filet almost every Saturday night.
I broke out a 1995 Bordeau to have with some parmagiano reggiano after dinner. It was ready to drink and was delicious! A little grappa after that and I slept just fine Saturday night.
One more week and I get my cast off!
Cindy will probably get the crapmobile back Monday evening.
Posted by denny at June 15, 2003 07:50 PM