Just Blabbing
So did you get your free Ben & Jerry's ice cream today? If you read this before 8p Pacific, then you'll still be able to get some. Aah, it was good. I went with a co-worker to the one in Venice: my first pass I got Coffee; my second pass (we did it sneakily, going to another staffer) I got Chocolate Therapy. Yum, chocolate pudding, chocolate cookies and chocolate ice cream! I think I need a time out right about now.
Actually, I'm lactose-intolerant (a lot of Asians are), so I rarely eat ice cream, just sorbets. As a sobering thought, it's interesting to know that Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry's), had a quadruple bypass at age 49. And that Irv Robbins' (of Baskin-Robbins) poor health may be due to excessive ice cream consumption. Don't eat too much, people! Savor the free cone day, and then move on...
I earned my Good Citizen gold star today. At an intersection 5 cars ran a red light turning left. (Before I go on, it must be said that in L.A. this is fairly common and no one bats an eyelid, because quite frankly it's all about being FIRST in line and fuck you all. That is, until a black-and-white spots you.) Where was I? So anyway, everyone is already driving through the intersection (me included) when out of the corner of my eye I see this white blur and instinctively I brake. So do the other cars to the left and right of me (I was in the middle lane). It was a truck, ladders and all, running the fully, definitely, affirmatively red light. Screeching brakes and squealing tires, it sped off, ignoring the angry honking by me and other drivers. I'm normally a low-key driver, but this irritated me because it could've been a bad accident. I caught up with the truck at the next light; it was a Gas Company maintenance truck with a sticker on the back that said "How am I driving? 1-800-GAS-SAFE" You know what I did. What a fucker. I hope they assign toilet-cleaning to him.
More ice cream, please!
Okay, one more thing. This may or may not be in bad taste, so blame it on my sugar high. Did you hear they elected a new pope? Yeah, his name is George Ringo... (Geddit? John Paul? George Ringo? Geddit? Geddit?)
I didn't know that many Asians are lactose intollerant. Those of us of Mediterranean (sp?) descent are as well, including me. (Italian). Breyers makes a lactose free natural vanilla ice cream that is very good. You'll have to look around for it, because not all stores carry it. Vons does. Our fave way to have ice cream is a rooty-beer float.
My sister and her husband own a bunch of Ben & Jerry's stores - free cone day is a bad word in their house. Not because they don't like to give away the ice cream - but because it's usually a mad house. My sister told me it's a disaster today since the weather is in the 80s where they are - it's not usually this warm. People cutting lines, throwing fits, generally being ornery. You'd think people would be nice about free ice cream.
Cherry Garcia is my favorite.
Hmm, you almost make me want to go out and get ice cream. Almostrunningoutthedoor, but wait, nope, not gonna do it! Many African-Americans are also lactose-intolerant. I dont think that I am, but some milk products don't agree so well with me. Not that that stops me with ice cream, though.
Yeah, but sometimes it is worth being sick to enjoy the ice cream! At least that is what I say every time I eat that spoon ful of Ben and Jerry's. It is amazing how many people don't realize that Asians are lactose intolerant.
You totally had me going with the George Ringo thing. I'm an idiot who hasn't been watching the news/logging on. I had to google to see that it's Ratzinger-->Pope Benedict the 16th. Though there's comic gold in those sounds too...