Slice-of-Life Delightfulness and Delightful Books

In light of the beautiful weather and a week in which the first three days have felt like as many months, we went out to eat yesterday at a favorite local patio destination and found ourselves seated next to an ostentatiously Australian guy and his three female companions, all of them rather lit.

“What’s the biggest difference between Australia and here?” one of the women asked.

“I think,” he said slowly, “It’s how ignorant of the world Americans are.”

To which the queen bee of the group predictably responded that that was not the case. He demurred that it was, she protested again, and they continued back and forth on the point.

“All right,” he said after several rounds in this vein, “What’s the capital of Belarus? I bet you don’t know. No American would know.”

“I know the capital of Belarus,” she said.

“Oh yeah,” he said, and leaned across the table. ( “Prove it.” )

So that was pretty wonderful.


( I also did some reading last week. )

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