Today, they celebrated the two oldest people on the
planet. At 116 years old, the two women
have seen and done a lot. The reporters
asked the women what their secret was for such a long life. The first replied, “At the age of 38, being
constantly abused by my husband, I decided to divorce him. I have since eaten three eggs every
morning.” The second replied, “At the
age of 28, I decided to leave my husband and take care of myself. I have been eating eggs for breakfast every
morning since that day.” Scientists have
concluded that the secret to long life is less marriage and more eggs!
We were headed to the neighborhood market today to buy
curtains for our house. Apparently, you
can find beautiful curtains for a fraction of the cost. Our trip to the market can be summed up as
hundreds of rude, impatient people shoving and pushing their way past you
because apparently slowing down in the aisle because there is no space to move
means that you have to be shoved out of the way to make room for someone else
that can stand in your place better. (I
swear I felt like I was back in Houston traffic again.) What pissed me off the most is when I’d get
shoved out of the way and then the person would be walking slower than me. Or more often would stop in front of me to
look at some stupid crap on a table in the very next stall. Because getting there one nanosecond earlier
meant that you got a better bargain or something. So then, I’d be forced to shove past them so
that I could keep walking. I even had
one woman do this routine to me three times.
She would shove past me, I’d shove past her, and she’d shove past me
again.
This happened constantly until I was so battered, bruised,
and tired that I just wanted to get out of there and go home. I truly believe that people hunting a bargain
cease to be human and turn into monsters.
It was like experiencing Black Friday in a Wal-Mart. Oh, by the way, we found some really nice
curtains. Well, my wife and mamas
did. I just carried the stuff and guarded
their rear flank.
Before going home, we stopped off at Anna’s place to see
her, her new baby Konstantinos, and to visit with Alexandros. Her mother, Eleni, was there as well. It was nice to see them all, and they were as
generous as ever. Alexandros is nine
now, and he’s gotten so big since the last time I saw him. He really wanted to chat with me, but we are
both stymied by language. I must try
again to learn Greek. There are so many
people I’d like to talk to, but can’t. I
can’t expect everyone to speak English all the time. Alexandros invited us to watch him play
soccer. Hopefully, we’ll get to see him
play before we go.
At one point, my wife, Anna, Eleni, and mamas were all
talking simultaneously. I started
cracking up laughing at the absurdity of it, because I can’t figure out how any
of them could follow what anyone else was saying. Oh well.
We stopped off at a local gyro shop and got gyros, which were wonderful.
We came home, and I took a nap (because the market had done
me in) while my wife and mamas started to hem the curtains.
