What Sam says
Overheard in the Wolfe House #275
Paige (via FaceTime, from South Korea): So how’s the job search going?
Sam (long explanation and summarizing thusly): And when you have it narrowed down, you pick the one with the best payroll.
The Birthday Girl
Overheard in the Wolfe House #274
Peggy (meeting Sam at the baggage claim, at 1:21 a.m.): You have a new carry-on bag?
Sam: Yes.
Peggy (as she and Sam get in the pick-up, about 15 minutes later): Did someone give you that bag?
Sam: Yes. Aunt Teresa.
Sam (at home, about 45 minutes later): I need to put the bag in the refrigerator.
Peggy: Really? Why?
Sam: It’s full of cookie dough.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #273
Peggy (noting the washer lid is open): Wait. The washer went off-balance?
Sam: I opened it before it started.
Peggy: I didn’t hear that. Did I miss it?
Sam: I can hear it when the motor sound starts refracting.
Peggy (face palm)
Overheard in the Wolfe House #272
Sam (frequent client of a variety of community services, as he opens an envelope): I’m tired of surveys now.
Bonus Overheards: Stuff my Family Says
Sister 2 (reading road sign on the Overseas Highway)
Sister 4: You feel sticky?
Sister 2: No. Fiesta Key.
Sister 3: We get name tags?
Sister 1: No, a hang tag.
Sister 4: My colleague’s wife is a pulmonologist.
Nephew 2: Is that some kind of religion?
Walk, Trot, Canter
We spent last weekend in College Station. Sam rode Trevor in the state Special Olympics, Class A. Here’s the ride. Trevor was really working hard, Sam said, but they didn’t medal.
I’ll post the trail and showmanship videos next.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #271
Peggy (leaving the church): You ok?
Sam: I hate funerals.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #269
Sam (looking over Peggy’s shoulder at the computer screen): So you’re looking up how to do pest control?
Peggy: Yeah, making some with herbs and stuff.
Sam: Like a Venus flytrap?
Overheard in the Wolfe House #268
Sam: Sharon Wilson sent me an invitation to a porch party. I want to go.
Peggy: You bet.
Sam: So what is that about?
Peggy: Some people in Denton are trying to have an election to make Denton frack free.
Sam: If Denton is frack free, I want to move there.
Overheard in the Wolfe House #267
Sam (in a stage whisper): Michael doesn’t have to drive a stick anymore.
Michael’s new-to-him Subaru Outback. (with the old, faithful Saturn in the background)
Sam’s TV Guide
A dear friend visited us last weekend and remarked at one point about how we don’t watch television. That’s not quite true. It is true that we’ve never had cable and now, with all the online availability, we probably never will. When we watch television, it’s deliberate: it’s on for a particular show and then we turn it off when it’s done.
I like to watch the 10 p.m. news and the first part of The Late Show with David Letterman in the evening, and I always holler out when Dave’s ready to read the Top 10 list because Sam enjoys them so much.
Here’s Sam’s T.V. Guide:
- Dancing with the Stars, but after the first few eliminations (“They aren’t that good in the beginning,” Sam says)
- America’s Funniest Home Videos
- Wheel of Fortune
- Saturday Night Live: the opening sketch and Weekend Update
- The weather, especially Ch. 5 Rameisha Shade
- Dave Letterman reading the Top Ten List
I’m not sure what this says, but it says something.