We were at an embassy function today. The weather was sunny and warm so it was held outside on the embassy grounds. This was not the US embassy, btw, but the place I work. Diplomats, businessmen and various other classy people were milling about, making speeches, awarding prizes, playing musical instruments and waiting for the buffet to open. I talked briefly to an attractive 60-year old Austrian woman, who is now retired from her receptionist position at that embassy, amazingly slender and fashionably dressed. She talked about her recent vacation in Portugal, which was beautiful except the ocean was colder than she likes. She mentioned how much she could use a good cup of coffee or a nice pastry. Then she briefly turned away, went “fpfoot” and hacked some item into the grass, then continued with her story. It was a David Lynch moment.
What a gift that was, wow!
that’s sketchy. i can’t have much respect for someone who hawks loogies in public no matter how cool they are otherwise.
The cultures of the world are wonderfully diverse. Americans are too goddamn prissy about almost everything. (I’m an American, too, but a non-prissy American.)
well, call me a prissy american, but at the moment it was one of those things that are so odd all you can do is ignore them in polite society. i love those little moments, it was like something one of the more eccentric members of my family would do. although i do like girls who spit. in college i had a crush for the longest time on a woman from wyoming i once chanced to see hocking an enormous loogie ten stories off her dormitory balcony.
let me tell you there is NOTHING like waking up in the morning to the sound of your other half halking up a big combo of spit and phlegm in the bathroom sink. so sexy. :P