Twitters Of Life In Scranton

[serinde]

[For those of you who lack context, dutiful son elibalin has been dragooned forth to help clean out his grandparents' house in Middle Bumfuck, PA. This...is his story.]

7/29, 6:31pm: My bus driver has no nose.
7/29, 11:10pm: No internets, uncle fell off wagon again and will not be here, ground floor of house is disaster area. Uaelaelaelaelaelae.
7/29, 11:13pm: Also, according to the kids' menu of the local diner, Batman is a plate of chicken fingers.

7/30, 9:15am: Cousin will not be here either. Entire cleanup job falls on me. Must do everything in two days to avoid coming out here next weekend. Motivated by rage.
7/30, 9:20am: Oh, also? When phone service was reactivated here, for the duration of this mess, it came with DSL, but the router got shipped to one of the nursing homes.
7/30, 11:12am: TOO MUCH STUFF
7/30, 11:31am: Found: sad clown needlepoint.
7/30, 2:59pm: I have just filled a crate with ceramic owls.
7/30, 4:35pm: I cannot express how awful a time I'm having.

Comments

the bus driver

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

How does he smell?

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

P.S. <<>> to Eli.

This too shall pass.

Re: the bus driver

[sweh.livejournal.com]

That was exactly the joke we texted back to Eli :-)

[missionista.livejournal.com]

Oh, Eli, sorry to hear about the horror. However, take comfort in the fact that you are doing a good deed in ridding the world of an entire crate of ceramic owls. (And whatever else you find.)

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

7/30, 2:59pm: I have just filled a crate with ceramic owls.

How wrong is it that I find this mildly hilarious?

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Please to be giving the eli a hug from me. Poor guy. OTOH, if he needs to get out there again Saturday morning, I'll be going through Scranton on my way to Pennsic...

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Yes, probably me too on Scranton Saturday-ish, although I don't know when. You could give him my cell for brief distraction. I agree, this too shall pass. It is just more horrible because he has no one like-minded and present with whom to share the misery. I've been there, done that, and to prove it I've got the various junk that followed me home. No ceramic owls.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

But you did have a marvelous crocheted turkey!

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Lucky that I found someone who needed it more than me. It's possible that my mother made that crocheted turkey herself, which would make it a family heirloom, dontcha know.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Then I am honored to have it keeping an ever vigilant guard over my coat closet.

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

That's only 364 days a year. You do display it proudly on Thanksgiving, right?

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Depends...are you coming for Thanksgiving this year?