2 posts tagged “the crazy”

Do you ever feel like your life is a sitcom?  You know, where one theme will emerge and then continue to assert itself over the course of a few days?

Last night I got some pretty disappointing news about a guy that I’ve been scoping out.  I’m not completely sure the news is true, but after hearing it last night, I started picturing said guy in a number of Whiskey Tango (white trash) situations and got really depressed about the whole thing.

So then this morning, while waiting for the coffee to brew at work, I was talking about the weekend’s food with my foodie co-worker, Feeners, and we were talking about how hard it is to find quality bread in Havre de Grace.  I asked if he ever went into [a local] bakery, and he said, “yeah, on occasion, but…” and here he kind of glanced around and lowered his voice, and said “it’s kind of a… white trash bakery.”  I laughed, and he said, “not to be classist… but… there are a LOT of good old boy types in Havre de Grace.”  That made me feel a little sick, because it’s true, and UGH, if it didn’t relate to my issue.

Then this morning, as I was telling my friend Jane all of this, she reminded me of something else.  Last night we went to a chili cook-off, where my friend, Fred, was competing.  His chili was amazing, and had beer in it… but anyway… the name of his chili?  White Trash. 

I wish, like any good sitcom, this all gets resolved; maybe some Uncle Jesse type can tell me what the lesson is in all of this.  But most likely, time will just tick on.

Read this story.  Even if you only make it through the first page, you did not see this coming, I promise:

The Annals of Crime: The Chameleon; The many lives of Frédéric Bourdin.