We were at my grandma's nursing home & I was reading the dinner menu outloud: "braunschwaeger sandwich."
Joe:
You know braunschweger is high in iron. So is beer. I read that in my information from my surgery. A little braunschwaeger, a little beer, a little velveta, sh#t man, I'm the picture of health.
Alicia: Does velveta have a lot of iron in it?
Joe: Oh yeah, it's right up there.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Dalai Joe
Joe: You know how that lady down the street took me to my doctor's appointment and then we went out for coffee afterwards? I got a real nice Christmas card from her saying happy holidays & she really enjoyed talking to me at coffee because i'm easy to talk to and open.
Alicia: Oh, you are?
Joe: Hell yes. Alright, I'm gonna put my psychology degree away here & take a leak.
Alicia: Oh, you are?
Joe: Hell yes. Alright, I'm gonna put my psychology degree away here & take a leak.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Holidays filled with pie plates & screamin' knees.
Joe has 2
recipes that call for a 10” pie plate, so he’s been on the hunt for one. I wish I could have a recording of his conversation because I'm sure I'm missing some of his eloquence. (He had already looked for the pie plate at Walmart, Kmart, Target, & Big Lots)
Joe:
So I go to
the mall to look for this pie plate. I
parked by Penny’s, went in & they ain’t got nuthin.’
So here I’m
walking to Macy’s looking around at all these ladies & their old men just
following them around, like baby skunks behind their mother. I thought to myself, “this is the last place
Joe Herbst needs to be. What the hell am
I doing here” And my knees are screamin.’
Here I see
my buddy Bill.
So we were
talkin’ for about a half hour & I says, “Hey Bill, you want to get a seat
somewhere, my knees are screamin.’” So
we went to that Starbuck’s & he got us some coffees. I told him I didn’t want any of that “expresso”
bullsh#t, just regular coffee. So we
talked a little more & then he had to go.
So I go
prancin’ down to Macy’s and figured out that the pie plates are on the lower
level, so I find the escalator & I’m at the up instead of down
escalator. I thought, “g#ddamn, how much
time am I going to put into this looking for a g#ddamn pie plate.” Alicia again, not to draw out the story, but profanities ensued & he finally got a 9.5" pie plate & at Big Lots because apparently 10" pie plates don't exist in the STL; the world was happy again.
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