Me to Co-worker #1: "Which is it, 'between you and me' or 'between you and I'?"
Silence as we both ponder this grammatical conundrum.
Co-worker #2 intervening: "Wouldn't it be 'between us'?"
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Setting: A discontinued line of figs and dates has gone on sale for $1.00 per package. Yours truly buys the remaining thirty packages because, hey, evidently ingesting copious amounts of fiber is good for the digestive system.
Vons cashier: "Thank you, Miss Brooks. You saved $100. [Uncertain pause] You got all your figs."
My preferred response: Please, please, hold the applause!
My actual response since the cashier was looking at me as if I was one of "those people" who take ten minute sponge baths in airplane lavatories: "Thank you. It's not often I get to hear that at the grocery store."
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Me trying on a royal blue silk shirt with a ruffled neck line: “What do you think of this?”
Silence as we both ponder this grammatical conundrum.
Co-worker #2 intervening: "Wouldn't it be 'between us'?"
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Setting: A discontinued line of figs and dates has gone on sale for $1.00 per package. Yours truly buys the remaining thirty packages because, hey, evidently ingesting copious amounts of fiber is good for the digestive system.
Vons cashier: "Thank you, Miss Brooks. You saved $100. [Uncertain pause] You got all your figs."
My preferred response: Please, please, hold the applause!
My actual response since the cashier was looking at me as if I was one of "those people" who take ten minute sponge baths in airplane lavatories: "Thank you. It's not often I get to hear that at the grocery store."
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Me trying on a royal blue silk shirt with a ruffled neck line: “What do you think of this?”
My youngest sister (immediately): “It looks like Queen Victoria’s wedding night dress.”
Was she there???
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